Draft genome sequence of the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc piscinale CENA21, isolated from the Brazilian Amazon floodplain

Abstract

We announce here the draft genome sequence of Nostoc piscinale CENA21, a diazotrophic heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium isolated from the Solimões River, Amazon Basin, Brazil. It consists of one circular chromosome scaffold with 11 contigs and total size of 7,094,556 bp. Secondary metabolite annotations indicate a good source for the discovery of novel natural products. © 2016 Leão et al.This work has been supported by grants from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and from the Funda ção de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Pará (BIONORTE-CNPq/FAPESPA) to M.P.C.S. This work, including the efforts of Marli Fatima Fiore and Maria Paula Cruz Schneider, was funded by MCTI | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (307045/2010-2 and 306607/2012-3). This work, including the efforts of Tiago Leão and Pedro Ivo Guimaraes, was funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) (13425-13-7 and 13194-13-5). This work, including the efforts of Pedro Nuno Leão, was funded by Ministry of Education and Science | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (IF/01358/2014)