Isolation and characterization of ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas sp. strain APG5, Puget Sound, Washington, 2008-10-26

The data provided here show a draft genome sequence of Nitrosomonas sp. strain APG5, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium isolated from beach sand. In 2008, Nitrosomonas sp. strain APG5 was isolated from a dry sand sample collected from Edmonds Ferry Dock Beach locates in the Puget Sound, which is historically and routinely contaminated by small oil spills due to heavy ship transportation including a state-run ferry system. The bacterium was isolated and characterized because no ammonia-oxidizing bacterium has been isolated from beach sand and deposited in public culture collections. It hinders the study of the ecological response of nitrification to oil spills and its impact on the marine nitrogen cycling. To get insights into marine nitrogen cycling, we determined a draft genome sequence of Nitrosomonas sp. strain APG5. The bacterium was deposited in public culture collections and the genome dataset is now in public.