Abstract
Genomes of the month
Seven new microbial genomes have been published since last month's Genome Update column was written. As usual, there is a heavy bias towards members of the Proteobacteria (which constitute about half of all the bacterial genomes sequenced so far; 107 out of 225). The list of new genomes includes five Proteobacteria. Two are members of the α-Proteobacteria, the rickettsia Ehrlichia ruminantium, and Gluconobacter oxydans, which is of interest to the food industry. Three are γ-Proteobacteria, the warfare germ Francisella tularensis, the plant pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae and finally Vibrio fischeri. The other genomes are of the probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus and the archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis. A brief overview of these genomes is given below and a summary is presented in Table 1.