Non-contiguous finished genome sequence of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale strain H06-030791.

Emilie S Zehr,Karen B Register,Darrell O Bayles,Louisa B Tabatabai,William D Boatwright

doi:10.1186/1944-3277-9-14

Abstract

The Gram-negative, pleomorphic, rod-shaped bacterium Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale is a cause of pneumonia and airsacculitis in poultry. It is a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum “Bacteroidetes”. O. rhinotracheale strain H06-030791 was isolated from the lung of a turkey in North Carolina in 2006. Its genome consists of a circular chromosome of 2,319,034 bp in length with a total of 2243 protein-coding genes and nine RNA genes. Genome sequences are available for two additional strains of O. rhinotracheale, isolated in 1988 and 1995, the latter described in a companion genome report in this issue of SIGS. The genome sequence of O. rhinotracheale strain H06-030791, a more contemporary isolate, will be of value in establishing core and pan-genomes for O. rhinotracheale and elucidating its evolutionary history.

Highlights

Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale has been implicated as a cause of respiratory disease in domesticated fowl since at least 1981 [1]
The most common clinical signs of disease related to O. rhinotracheale are tracheitis, pneumonia, airsacculitis, sinusitis, and pericarditis [1,4]
Prior to this report only a single genome sequence was available for O. rhinotracheale, from the type strain LMG 9086, and no corresponding analysis of an O. rhinotracheale genome has been published

Summary

Introduction

Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale has been implicated as a cause of respiratory disease in domesticated fowl since at least 1981 [1]. We present a description of the noncontiguous finished genome of O. rhinotracheale strain H06-030791 and its annotation. V. Nagaraja, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; TAS: Traceable Author Statement (i.e., a direct report exists in the literature); NAS: Non-traceable Author Statement (i.e., not directly observed for the living, isolated sample, but based on a generally accepted property for the species, or anecdotal evidence).

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