Complete Genomic Sequence Of An Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli Strain Of Serotype O7:hnt.

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is associated with colibacillosis in poultry. Here, we present the first complete sequence of an APEC strain of the O7:HNT serotype and ST73 sequence type, isolated from a broiler with cellulitis. Complete genomes of APEC with distinct genetic backgrounds may be useful for comparative analysis.

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

Complete Genomic Sequence of an Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strain of Serotype O7:HNT

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is associated with colibacillosis in poultry. Here, we present the first complete sequence of an APEC strain of the O7:HNT serotype and ST73 sequence type, isolated from a broiler with cellulitis. Complete genomes of APEC with distinct genetic backgrounds may be useful for comparative analysis.This article is published as Maluta, Renato P., Bryon Nicholson, Catherine M. Logue, Lisa K. Nolan, Thaís CG Rojas, and Wanderley Dias da Silveira. "Complete genomic sequence of an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli strain of serotype O7: HNT." Genome Announcements 4, no. 1 (2016): e01611-15. DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01611-15. Copyright 2016 Maluta et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Posted with permission