Abstract
When the genome of Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 was published in 2004, it represented the first sequence from a heterotrophic marine bacterium. Over the last ten years, the strain has become a valuable model for understanding the cycling of sulfur and carbon in the ocean. To ensure that this genome remains useful, we have updated 69 genes to incorporate functional annotations based on new experimental data, and improved the identification of 120 protein-coding regions based on proteomic and transcriptomic data. We review the progress made in understanding the biology of R. pomeroyi DSS-3 and list the changes made to the genome.
Highlights
Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 is an important model organism in studies of the physiology and ecology of marine bacteria [1]
It is a genetically tractable strain that has been essential for elucidating bacterial roles in the marine sulfur and carbon cycles [2,3] and the biology and genomics of the marine Roseobacter clade [4], a group that makes up 5–20% of bacteria in ocean surface waters [5,6]
Since 2006, many of the genes mediating the uptake and metabolism of DMSP have been identified from the R. pomeroyi DSS-3 genome
Summary
Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 is an important model organism in studies of the physiology and ecology of marine bacteria [1]. We update the R. pomeroyi DSS-3 genome with 189 changes collected from the work of several research groups over the last ten years.
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