Complete Genome Sequence of Strain BB001, a Novel Epibiont Bacterium from the Candidate Phylum Saccharibacteria (TM7).
Eleanor I LamontErik L HendricksonJeffrey S McLeanXuesong HeBatbileg BorPublished in: Microbiology resource announcements (2020)
Strain BB001 is cultivated from the human oral cavity on its basibiont bacterial host Actinomyces sp. It is an ultrasmall bacterium with a reduced genome that grows obligately on its bacterial host. BB001 is the first member of human microbiome taxon 957.