Draft Genome Sequence from a Putative New Genus and Species in the Family Methanoregulaceae Isolated from the Anoxic Basin of Lake Untersee in East Antarctica

• Published in: Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Main Authors: Wagner, Nicole Y., Hahn, Aria S., Andersen, Dale, Wilhelm, Mary Beth, Morgan-Lang, Connor, Vanderwilt, Mia, Johnson, Sarah Stewart
• Other Authors: Stedman, Kenneth M., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Tawani Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Untersee; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mra.00271-19; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/MRA.00271-19

Here, we report the draft genome sequence for a new putative genus and species in the Methanoregulaceae family, whose members are generally slow-growing rod-shaped or coccoid methanogenic archaea. The information on this sediment-dwelling organism sheds light on the prokaryotes inhabiting isolated, deep, and extremely cold methane-rich environments.