Complete Genome Sequences of the Obligate Symbionts "Candidatus Sulcia muelleri" and "Ca. Nasuia deltocephalinicola" from the Pestiferous Leafhopper Macrosteles quadripunctulatus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Gordon M Bennett; Simona Abbà; Michael Kube; Cristina Marzachì

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01604-15

Complete Genome Sequences of the Obligate Symbionts "Candidatus Sulcia muelleri" and "Ca. Nasuia deltocephalinicola" from the Pestiferous Leafhopper Macrosteles quadripunctulatus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 21;4(1):e01604-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01604-15.

Authors

Gordon M Bennett¹, Simona Abbà², Michael Kube³, Cristina Marzachì²

Affiliations

¹ University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA gordon.bennett@hawaii.edu.
² Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, Torino, Italy.
³ Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

Two bacterial symbionts of the European pest leafhopper, Macrosteles quadripunctulatus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), were fully sequenced. "Candidatus Sulcia muelleri" and "Ca. Nasuia deltocephalinicola" represent two of the smallest known bacterial genomes at 190 kb and 112 kb, respectively. Genome sequences are nearly identical to strains reported from the closely related host species, M. quadrilineatus.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a Short-Term Mobility Program (STM 2014) from the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) for C.M. and G.M.B. G.M.B. was partially supported by the National Science Foundation award IOS1347116 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, AFRI fellowship TEXQ-2013-0342.