Abstract
Strain HIMB100 is a planktonic marine bacterium in the class Alphaproteobacteria. This strain is of interest because it is one of the first known isolates from a globally ubiquitous clade of marine bacteria known as SAR116 within the family Rhodospirillaceae. Here we describe preliminary features of the organism, together with the draft genome sequence and annotation. This is the second genome sequence of a member of the SAR116 clade. The 2,458,945 bp genome contains 2,334 protein-coding and 42 RNA genes.
Highlights
HIMB100 is a taxonomically uncharacterized marine bacterial strain isolated from surface seawater collected off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii in the subtropical Pacific Ocean [1]
Strain HIMB100 was isolated by a highthroughput, dilution-to-extinction approach [20] from seawater collected off the coast of Hawaii, USA, in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean, and bore an identical 16S rRNA gene sequence to three other isolates obtained from the same study [1]
Chemotaxonomy No cellular fatty acids profiles are currently available for strain HIMB100, nor have any been reported for other cultivated members of the SAR116 clade
Summary
HIMB100 is a taxonomically uncharacterized marine bacterial strain isolated from surface seawater collected off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii in the subtropical Pacific Ocean [1]. It is of significant interest because it belongs to a 16S rRNA gene clade of marine Alphaproteobacteria known as SAR116, which was first described by Mullins et al in 1995 [2] and has since been found to be widespread in the global surface ocean based on cultivation-independent surveys of marine bacterioplankton [3,4,5,6,7,8,9].
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