Complete Genome Sequence of the Subsurface, Mesophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio aespoeensis Aspo-2

Researchers:

Karsten Pedersen, Andreas Bengtsson, Johanna Edlund, Lisa Rabe, Terry Hazen, Romy Chakraborty, Lynne Goodwin, nicole Shapiro

Abstract:

Desulfovibrio aespoeensis Aspo-2, DSM 10631(T), is a mesophilic, hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium sampled from a 600-m-deep subsurface aquifer in hard rock under the island of Äspö in southeastern Sweden. We report the genome sequence of this bacterium, which is a 3,629,109-bp chromosome; plasmids were not found.

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Citation:

Pedersen K, Bengtsson A, Edlund J, Rabe L, Hazen T, Chakraborty R, Goodwin L, Shapiro N. 2014. Complete genome sequence of the subsurface, mesophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio aespoeensis Aspo-2. Genome Announcements 2:doi 10.1128/genomeA.00509-14.