Draft Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa,” an Endosymbiont of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci

• DOI: 10.1128/jb.00069-12
• Publication Date: 2012-06-11T22:23:10Z
• Authors: Qiong Rao; Shuang Wang; Yun-Lin Su; Xiao-Li Bing; Shu-Sheng Liu; Xiao-Wei Wang
• Keywords: Hemiptera; 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; Bacterial Proteins; Molecular Sequence Data; Animals; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Symbiosis; Gammaproteobacteria; Genome, Bacterial

ABSTRACT

“ Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa” is a facultative endosymbiont of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci . Herein, we report the first draft genome sequence of “ Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa” from the invasive Mediterranean cryptic species of the B. tabaci complex. The 1.84-Mbp genome sequence comprises 404 contigs and contains 1,806 predicted protein-coding genes.