Abstract
Vibrio tubiashii NCIMB 1337 is a major and increasingly prevalent pathogen of bivalve mollusks, and shares a close phylogenetic relationship with both V. orientalis and V. coralliilyticus. It is a Gram-negative, curved rod-shaped bacterium, originally isolated from a moribund juvenile oyster, and is both oxidase and catalase positive. It is capable of growth under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the draft genome and annotation. The genome is 5,353,266 bp long, consisting of two chromosomes, and contains 4,864 protein-coding and 86 RNA genes.
Highlights
The genus Vibrio is both numerous and ubiquitous within marine environments, with Vibrio species harbored within many diverse marine organisms, such as mollusks, shrimps, fishes, cephalopods and corals [1]
The organisms were isolated from bivalve mollusks during an outbreak of bacillary necrosis in Milford, Connecticut, and deposited in the American Type Culture Collection as ATCC 19105, 19106 and 19109
V. tubiashii is closely related to the proposed coral pathogen V. coralliilyticus, as well as V. orientalis, a bacterium associated with penaeid shrimps [7]
Summary
The genus Vibrio is both numerous and ubiquitous within marine environments, with Vibrio species harbored within many diverse marine organisms, such as mollusks, shrimps, fishes, cephalopods and corals [1]. The organisms were isolated from bivalve mollusks during an outbreak of bacillary necrosis in Milford, Connecticut, and deposited in the American Type Culture Collection as ATCC 19105, 19106 and 19109. These three strains were further elucidated and formally named as V. tubiashii by Hada et al [4] in 1984. V. tubiashii is closely related to the proposed coral pathogen V. coralliilyticus, as well as V. orientalis, a bacterium associated with penaeid shrimps [7]. V. coralliilyticus was initially designated as a V. tubiashii strain [8,9] due to their close similarity
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