Draft Genome Assembly of the Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena Strain CENA596 in Shrimp Production Ponds

Rafael Vicentini Popin; Janaina Rigonato; Vinicius Augusto Carvalho Abreu; Ana Paula Dini Andreote; Savênia Bonoto Silveira; Clarisse Odebrecht; Marli Fatima Fiore

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00466-16

Draft Genome Assembly of the Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena Strain CENA596 in Shrimp Production Ponds

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 9;4(3):e00466-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00466-16.

Authors

Rafael Vicentini Popin¹, Janaina Rigonato¹, Vinicius Augusto Carvalho Abreu¹, Ana Paula Dini Andreote¹, Savênia Bonoto Silveira², Clarisse Odebrecht², Marli Fatima Fiore³

Affiliations

¹ University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Federal University of Rio Grande, Institute of Oceanography, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
³ University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil fiore@cena.usp.br.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome assembly of the brackish cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena strain CENA596 isolated from a shrimp production pond in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The draft genome consists of 291 contigs with a total size of 5,189,679 bp. Secondary metabolite annotations resulted in several predicted gene clusters, including those responsible for encoding the hepatotoxin nodularin.