In 2012, Aharon Oren wrote a review on the family Halobacteriaceae, where he pointed out with some surprise that the “type species of the type genus of the family and the order” had not yet been sequenced. This was despite the genomes of strains R1 and NRC-1 having been reported years previously. I am happy to say that today this deficit has been remedied, as described in our recent publication in Microbial Resource Announcements, and sequence submissions to Genbank, under accessions CP038631 (chromosome), CP038632 (pHSAL1), and CP038633 (pHSAL2). Assembly of these replicons was not a straightforward task, as there were very large repeats, and considerable genomic variability. We are currently working on a more detailed analysis of this sequence.
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ChaoS9 – a novel halovirus
What happens when ChaoS9 gets into your culture! The paper describing this new virus is now published and can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/3/194
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