RESEARCH ARTICLE Genome Analysis of Planctomycetes Inhabiting Blades of the Red Alga Porphyra umbilicalis Jay W. Kim1*, Susan H. Brawley2, Simon Prochnik3, Mansi Chovatia3, Jane Grimwood3,4, Jerry Jenkins3,4, Kurt LaButti3, Konstantinos Mavromatis3, Matt Nolan3, Matthew Zane3, Jeremy Schmutz3,4, John W. Stiller5, Arthur R. Grossman6 1 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, 2 School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, 3 Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, 4 HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, 5 Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, 6 Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Citation: Kim JW, Brawley SH, Prochnik S, Chovatia Abstract M, Grimwood J, Jenkins J, et al. (2016) Genome Analysis of Planctomycetes Inhabiting Blades of the Porphyra is a macrophytic red alga of the Bangiales that is important ecologically and eco- Red Alga Porphyra umbilicalis. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151883. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151883 nomically. We describe the genomes of three bacteria in the phylum Planctomycetes (des- ignated P1, P2 and P3) that were isolated from blades of Porphyra umbilicalis (P.um.1). Editor: Jean-François Pombert, Illinois Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES These three Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) belong to distinct genera; P2 belongs to the genus Rhodopirellula, while P1 and P3 represent undescribed genera within the Planc- Received: August 27, 2015 tomycetes.