Draft Genome Sequence of the Fish Pathogen Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii Strain JCM15466, a Species Closely Related to M. marinum

Jun-Ichi Hikima; Masahiro Sakai; Takashi Aoki; Haruko Takeyama; John Hawke; Kazuki Mori; Kosuke Tashiro; Satoru Kuhara

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01630-15

Draft Genome Sequence of the Fish Pathogen Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii Strain JCM15466, a Species Closely Related to M. marinum

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 11;4(1):e01630-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01630-15.

Authors

Jun-Ichi Hikima¹, Masahiro Sakai¹, Takashi Aoki², Haruko Takeyama³, John Hawke⁴, Kazuki Mori⁵, Kosuke Tashiro⁵, Satoru Kuhara⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
² Integrated Institute for Regulatory Science, Research Organization for Nao and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan takashi.aoki65@gmail.com.
³ Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
⁵ Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Abstract

Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii is a slowly growing photochromogenic mycobacterium and fish pathogen isolated from wild marine fishes. M. pseudoshottsii closely resembles M. marinum, which is a human and animal pathogen. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of M. pseudoshottsii strain JCM15466, originally isolated from striped bass, Morone saxatilis.