Draft genome sequences of Weissella cibaria GM93m3, a promising probiotic strain from raw goat milk

Muiz O Akinyemi; Oluwawapelumi A Oyedele; Mariska S Kleyn; Bukola A Onarinde; Rasheed A Adeleke; Chibundu N Ezekiel

doi:10.1128/mra.00270-24

Draft genome sequences of Weissella cibaria GM93m3, a promising probiotic strain from raw goat milk

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Aug 13;13(8):e0027024. doi: 10.1128/mra.00270-24. Epub 2024 Jul 3.

Authors

Muiz O Akinyemi^{1

2}, Oluwawapelumi A Oyedele³, Mariska S Kleyn², Bukola A Onarinde¹, Rasheed A Adeleke², Chibundu N Ezekiel^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln , Lincoln, United Kingdom.
² Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) , Potchefstroom, South Africa.
³ Department of Microbiology, Babcock University , Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, BOKU University , Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

The draft genome of a previously documented potential probiotic Weissella cibaria strain GM93m3 from raw goat milk in Nigeria is reported. The total genome size was 2,447,229 with 46 contigs and G+C content of 44.86%.

Keywords: Weissella; food safety; gut health; probiotics.