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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic sulfur-reducer Hippea maritima type strain (MH(2))

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Stand Genomic Sci 4(3) , 303-11 (Jul 1 2011)

Author(s):

Huntemann, M., Lu, M., Nolan, M., Lapidus, A., Lucas, S., Hammon, N., Deshpande, S., Cheng, J. F., Tapia, R., Han, C., Goodwin, L., Pitluck, S., Liolios, K., Pagani, I., Ivanova, N., Ovchinikova, G., Pati, A., Chen, A., Palaniappan, K., Land, M., Hauser, L., Jeffries, C. D., Detter, J. C., Brambilla, E. M., Rohde, M., Spring, S., Goker, M., Woyke, T., Bristow, J., Eisen, J. A., Markowitz, V., Hugenholtz, P., Kyrpides, N. C., Klenk, H. P., Mavromatis, K.

DOI:

10.4056/sigs.1814460

Abstract:

Hippea maritima (Miroshnichenko et al. 1999) is the type species of the genus Hippea, which belongs to the family Desulfurellaceae within the class Deltaproteobacteria. The anaerobic, moderately thermophilic marine sulfur-reducer was first isolated from shallow-water hot vents in Matipur Harbor, Papua New Guinea. H. maritima was of interest for genome sequencing because of its isolated phylogenetic location, as a distant next neighbor of the genus Desulfurella. Strain MH(2) (T) is the first type strain from the order Desulfurellales with a completely sequenced genome. The 1,694,430 bp long linear genome with its 1,723 protein-coding and 57 RNA genes consists of one circular chromosome and is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.

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