Abstract
The Tara Oceans Consortium has published various metagenomes of marine environmental samples. Here, we report a contig of 2.6 Mbp from the assembly of a sample collected near the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, covering a nearly complete novel verrucomicrobial genome. We propose the name "Candidatus Moanabacter tarae" for the corresponding bacterium.
Highlights
The Tara Oceans Consortium has published various metagenomes of marine environmental samples
Based on the presence of 131 out of 139 bacterial single-copy marker genes (9) and the genome completeness estimation method miComplete v0.2.0, which takes the general distances between these marker genes into account, the contig was estimated to cover 92% of the complete genome
A BLAST search of the 16S rRNA gene recovered several uncultured marine sediment bacteria (GenBank accession numbers FN553635, JF809735, AB694308, and AB694307; 91 to 92% identity), epixenosomes of Euplotidium arenarium (87% identity), and Coraliomargarita akajimensis (86% identity) as the top hits, demonstrating the verrucomicrobial origin and novel nature of the contig
Summary
The Tara Oceans Consortium has published various metagenomes of marine environmental samples. The longest contig in this assembly was 2,633,965 bp and had a GC content of 46%. Based on the presence of 131 out of 139 bacterial single-copy marker genes (9) and the genome completeness estimation method miComplete v0.2.0 (https://bitbucket.org/ evolegiolab/micomplete), which takes the general distances between these marker genes into account, the contig was estimated to cover 92% of the complete genome.
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