Poles apart: Arctic and Antarctic Octadecabacter strains share high genome plasticity and a new type of xanthorhodopsin

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 5; p. e63422
• Main Authors: Vollmers, John, Voget, Sonja, Dietrich, Sascha, Gollnow, Kathleen, Smits, Maike, Meyer, Katja, Brinkhoff, Thorsten, Simon, Meinhard, Daniel, Rolf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 06.05.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adaptations; Amino Acid Sequence; Antarctic Regions; Arctic Regions; Arctic sea ice; Bacteria; Biodegradation; Biogeography; Biology; Carotenoids; Cloning; Conserved Sequence; DNA Transposable Elements; Gene sequencing; Gene transfer; Genes; Genome, Bacterial; Genomes; Genomics; Ice environments; Laboratories; Metagenome; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Molecular Sequence Data; Molecular Typing; Nucleotide sequence; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Plastic properties; Plasticity; Polar environments; Rhodobacteraceae - classification; Rhodobacteraceae - genetics; Rhodopsins, Microbial - genetics; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; rRNA 16S; Sea ice; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Synteny; Transposons; Antarctic Regions; Arctic Regions; Arctic region

The genus Octadecabacter is a member of the ubiquitous marine Roseobacter clade. The two described species of this genus, Octadecabacter arcticus and Octadecabacter antarcticus, are psychrophilic and display a bipolar distribution. Here we provide the manually annotated and finished genome sequences...