Draft Genome Sequence of the Psychrotolerant Bacterium Kurthia sibirica ATCC 49154T.

Abigail E GoenTyler SilverwoodAria UnderrinerAriel M TrachtenbergCarolyn KelleyKyle S MacLea

Published in: Microbiology resource announcements (2018)

The aerobic, Gram-positive, psychrotolerant bacterium Kurthia sibirica was first isolated from the stomach and intestinal contents of the Magadan mammoth recovered from the permafrost in eastern Siberia in 1977. K. sibirica was sequenced, and the predicted genome size is 3,496,665 bp, with 36.42% G+C content.

Keyphrases

gram negative
south africa
high intensity
gene expression
dna methylation