Comparative genomics: Dominant coral-bacterium Endozoicomonas acroporae metabolizes dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP)

• DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0610-x
• Publication Date: 2020-02-13T13:03:14Z
• Authors: Kshitij Tandon; Chih-Ying Lu; Pei-Wen Chiang; Naohisa Wada; Shan-Hua Yang; Ya-Fan Chan; Ping-Yun Chen; Hsiao-Yu Chang; Yu-Jing Chiou; Ming-Shean Chou; Wen-Ming Chen; Sen-Lin Tang
• Keywords: Dimethylsulfoniopropionate

Dominant coral-associated Endozoicomonas bacteria species are hypothesized to play a role in the coral sulfur cycle by metabolizing dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) into dimethylsulfide (DMS); however, no sequenced genome date harbors genes for this process. In study, we assembled high-quality (>95% complete) draft genomes of strains recently added acroporae (Acr-14