Chromosome and Megaplasmid Sequences of Borrelia anserina (Sakharoff 1891), the Agent of Avian Spirochetosis and Type Species of the Genus

Haitham Elbir; Parth Sitlani; Sven Bergström; Alan G Barbour

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00018-17

Chromosome and Megaplasmid Sequences of Borrelia anserina (Sakharoff 1891), the Agent of Avian Spirochetosis and Type Species of the Genus

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 16;5(11):e00018-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00018-17.

Authors

Haitham Elbir¹, Parth Sitlani², Sven Bergström^{1

2}, Alan G Barbour³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology and the Laboratory of Molecular Infection Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
² Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
³ Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA abarbour@uci.edu.

Abstract

Sequences of the linear chromosome and plasmids of Borrelia anserina, the cause of avian spirochetosis of poultry, revealed a smaller genome than those of other Borrelia spp. transmitted by argasid ticks. Missing or disrupted genes included a dam methylase and those in the pathway for synthesis of phospholipids from glycerol.

Grants and funding

P30 CA062203/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States