Complete Genome Sequence of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium " Candidatus Riesia pediculicola"

Jongsun Park; Si Hyeock Lee; Ju Hyeon Kim

doi:10.1128/MRA.01181-20

Complete Genome Sequence of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium " Candidatus Riesia pediculicola"

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 6;10(18):e01181-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01181-20.

Authors

Jongsun Park^{1

2}, Si Hyeock Lee^{3

4}, Ju Hyeon Kim⁵

Affiliations

¹ InfoBoss, Inc., Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea starflr@infoboss.co.kr biomyst5@snu.ac.kr.
² InfoBoss Research Center, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
³ Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea starflr@infoboss.co.kr biomyst5@snu.ac.kr.

Abstract

Human head and body lice host the obligate endosymbiotic bacterium "Candidatus Riesia pediculicola." In this announcement, we describe the complete genome sequence of a "Ca. Riesia pediculicola" strain isolated from the human head louse, Pediculus humanus subsp. capitis The inter- and intraspecific variations of endosymbiont genomes were investigated, and this strain was found to display high-level variations in its genome.