Draft Genome Sequence of the Versatile Alkane-Degrading Bacterium Aquabacterium sp. Strain NJ1

Hisako Masuda; Yuh Shiwa; Hirofumi Yoshikawa; Gerben J Zylstra

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01271-14

Draft Genome Sequence of the Versatile Alkane-Degrading Bacterium Aquabacterium sp. Strain NJ1

Genome Announc. 2014 Dec 4;2(6):e01271-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01271-14.

Authors

Hisako Masuda¹, Yuh Shiwa², Hirofumi Yoshikawa², Gerben J Zylstra³

Affiliations

¹ School of Sciences, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana, USA masudah@iuk.edu.
² Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Abstract

The draft genome sequence of a soil bacterium, Aquabacterium sp. strain NJ1, capable of utilizing both liquid and solid alkanes, was deciphered. This is the first report of an Aquabacterium genome sequence.

Grants and funding

P42 ES004911/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States