| Institution: | 1DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA;2Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA;3Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA;4Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain;5Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA;6DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany |
| Abstract: | The family Hyphomonadaceae within the Alphaproteobacteria is largely comprised of bacteria isolated from marine environments with striking morphologies and an unusual mode of cell growth. Here, we report the complete genome sequence Hirschia baltica, which is only the second a member of the Hyphomonadaceae with a published genome sequence. H. baltica is of special interest because it has a dimorphic life cycle and is a stalked, budding bacterium. The 3,455,622 bp long chromosome and 84,492 bp plasmid with a total of 3,222 protein-coding and 44 RNA genes were sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute Program CSP 2008. |
