TY - JOUR
T1 - New names for old strains? Wolbachia wSim is actually wRi
AU - Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Inaki
AU - Riegler, Markus
AU - O'Neill, Scott Leslie
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - A recent paper published by Salzberg et al. [1] reports the discovery, assembly and comparative analysis of three partial Wolbachia endosymbiont genomes. These data were retrieved from the Trace Archive [2] from sequencing projects that were focused on the endosymbiont hosts - Drosophila simulans, D. ananassae and D. mojavensis - using the fully sequenced wMel Wolbachia genome [3] as a probe. Salzberg et al. refer to these partial genomes as belonging to Wolbachia strains wSim, wAna and wMoj respectively [1]. These strain names are new constructions and it appears that the annotated wSim genome sequence is essentially identical to the previously described wRi strain [4] and should be named accordingly.
AB - A recent paper published by Salzberg et al. [1] reports the discovery, assembly and comparative analysis of three partial Wolbachia endosymbiont genomes. These data were retrieved from the Trace Archive [2] from sequencing projects that were focused on the endosymbiont hosts - Drosophila simulans, D. ananassae and D. mojavensis - using the fully sequenced wMel Wolbachia genome [3] as a probe. Salzberg et al. refer to these partial genomes as belonging to Wolbachia strains wSim, wAna and wMoj respectively [1]. These strain names are new constructions and it appears that the annotated wSim genome sequence is essentially identical to the previously described wRi strain [4] and should be named accordingly.
UR - http://genomebiology.com/content/pdf/gb-2005-6-7-401.pdf
U2 - 10.1186/gb-2005-6-7-401
DO - 10.1186/gb-2005-6-7-401
M3 - Letter
SN - 1474-7596
VL - 6
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - Genome Biology
JF - Genome Biology
IS - 7
ER -