Improved-high-quality draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus sp. JG-3, a eurypsychrophilic Actinobacteria from Antarctic Dry Valley permafrost

• Main Authors: Goordial, Jacqueline, Raymond-Bouchard, Isabelle, Ronholm, Jennifer, Shapiro, Nicole, Woyke, Tanja, Whyte, Lyle, Bakermans, Corien
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Figshare 2015
• Subjects: Medicine; Microbiology; FOS Biological sciences; Genetics; Evolutionary Biology; Ecology; 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; 110309 Infectious Diseases; FOS Health sciences; Computational Biology; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3618833.v1; https://figshare.com/collections/Improved-high-quality_draft_genome_sequence_of_Rhodococcus_sp_JG-3_a_eurypsychrophilic_Actinobacteria_from_Antarctic_Dry_Valley_permafrost/3618833/1

Abstract The actinobacterium Rhodococcus sp. JG-3 is an aerobic, eurypsychrophilic, soil bacterium isolated from permafrost in the hyper arid Upper Dry Valleys of Antarctica. It is yellow pigmented, gram positive, moderately halotolerant and capable of growth from 30 °C down to at least −5 °C. The 5.28 Mb high-quality-draft genome is arranged into 6 scaffolds, containing 9 contigs and 4998 protein coding genes, with 64 % GC content. Increasing the availability of genome sequences from cold-adapted species is crucial to gaining a better understanding of the molecular traits of cold adaptation in microbes.