Complete Genome Sequence of Strain BB001, a Novel Epibiont Bacterium from the Candidate Phylum Saccharibacteria (TM7)

Eleanor I Lamont; Erik L Hendrickson; Jeffrey S McLean; Xuesong He; Batbileg Bor

doi:10.1128/MRA.00810-20

Complete Genome Sequence of Strain BB001, a Novel Epibiont Bacterium from the Candidate Phylum Saccharibacteria (TM7)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Aug 20;9(34):e00810-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00810-20.

Authors

Eleanor I Lamont¹, Erik L Hendrickson¹, Jeffrey S McLean¹, Xuesong He^{2

3}, Batbileg Bor^{4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Periodontics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA bbor@forsyth.org.

Abstract

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.

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