AUTHOR=Patil Prashant P. , Midha Samriti , Kumar Sanjeet , Patil Prabhu B. 

TITLE=Genome Sequence of Type Strains of Genus Stenotrophomonas

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00309

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2016.00309

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=<p>Genomic resource of type strains and historically important strains of genus <italic>Stenotrophomonas</italic> allowed us to reveal the existence of 18 distinct species by applying modern phylogenomic criterions. Apart from <italic>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, S. africana</italic> represents another species of clinical importance. Interestingly, <italic>Pseudomonas hibsicola, P. beteli</italic>, and <italic>S. pavani</italic> that are of plant origin are closer to <italic>S. maltophilia</italic> than the majority of the environmental isolates. The genus has an open pan-genome. By providing the case study on genes encoding metallo-β-lactamase and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindrome Repeats (CRISPR) regions, we have tried to show the importance of this genomic dataset in understanding its ecology.</p>