Complete genome sequence of Staphylothermus hellenicus P8.

Iain Anderson,Natalia Ivanova,Reinhard Wirth,Samuel Pitluck,Lynne Goodwin,Miriam Land,Amrita Pati,Roxanne Tapia,Loren Hauser,John C Detter,Alla Lapidus,Tanja Woyke,Cliff Han,Alex Copeland,Natalia Mikhailova,Susan Lucas,Jan‐Fang Cheng ,Karen W Davenport ,Hans‐Peter Klenk ,Nikos C Kyrpides

doi:10.4056/sigs.2054696

Abstract

Staphylothermus hellenicus belongs to the order Desulfurococcales within the archaeal phylum Crenarchaeota. Strain P8T is the type strain of the species and was isolated from a shallow hydrothermal vent system at Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece. It is a hyperthermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph. Here we describe the features of this organism together with the complete genome sequence and annotation. The 1,580,347 bp genome with its 1,668 protein-coding and 48 RNA genes was sequenced as part of a DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Laboratory Sequencing Program (LSP) project.

Highlights

Strain P8T (=DSM 12710 = JCM 10830) is the type strain of the species Staphylothermus hellenicus
The S. hellenicus genome is the ninth to be published from the order Desulfurococcales in the phylum Crenarchaeota
Genome sequencing and assembly The genome of S. hellenicus was sequenced at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) using a combination of Illumina and 454 technologies

Summary

Introduction

We describe the features of this organism together with the complete genome sequence and annotation. S. hellenicus was isolated from sediment at Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece [1]. Sequencing, finishing, and annotation were performed by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI).

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Conclusion