Metagenome Sequencing to Explore Phylogenomics of Terrestrial Cyanobacteria

Ryan D Ward; Jason E Stajich; Jeffrey R Johansen; Marcel Huntemann; Alicia Clum; Brian Foster; Bryce Foster; Simon Roux; Krishnaveni Palaniappan; Neha Varghese; Supratim Mukherjee; T B K Reddy; Chris Daum; Alex Copeland; I-M A Chen; Natalia N Ivanova; Nikos C Kyrpides; Nicole Shapiro; Emiley A Eloe-Fadrosh; Nicole Pietrasiak

doi:10.1128/MRA.00258-21

Metagenome Sequencing to Explore Phylogenomics of Terrestrial Cyanobacteria

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jun 3;10(22):e0025821. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00258-21. Epub 2021 Jun 3.

Authors

Ryan D Ward^{1

2}, Jason E Stajich^{3

4}, Jeffrey R Johansen⁵, Marcel Huntemann⁶, Alicia Clum⁶, Brian Foster⁶, Bryce Foster⁶, Simon Roux⁶, Krishnaveni Palaniappan⁶, Neha Varghese⁶, Supratim Mukherjee⁶, T B K Reddy⁶, Chris Daum⁶, Alex Copeland⁶, I-M A Chen⁶, Natalia N Ivanova⁶, Nikos C Kyrpides⁶, Nicole Shapiro⁶, Emiley A Eloe-Fadrosh⁶, Nicole Pietrasiak¹

Affiliations

¹ Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
² Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
⁴ Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, USA.
⁶ Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, USA.

Abstract

Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous microorganisms with crucial ecosystem functions, yet most knowledge of their biology relates to aquatic taxa. We have constructed metagenomes for 50 taxonomically well-characterized terrestrial cyanobacterial cultures. These data will support phylogenomic studies of evolutionary relationships and gene content among these unique algae and their aquatic relatives.

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