| Institution: | 1DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA;2University of Regensburg, Microbiology – Archaeenzentrum, Regensburg, Germany;3Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA;4Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA;5DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany |
| Abstract: | Staphylothermus hellenicus belongs to the order Desulfurococcales within the archaeal phylum Crenarchaeota. Strain P8(T) is the type strain of the species and was isolated from a shallow hydrothermal vent system at Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece. It is a hyperthermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph. Here we describe the features of this organism together with the complete genome sequence and annotation. The 1,580,347 bp genome with its 1,668 protein-coding and 48 RNA genes was sequenced as part of a DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Laboratory Sequencing Program (LSP) project. |
