Thiospirillum jenense strain:DSM 216 Genome sequencing. Thiospirillum jenense strain:DSM 216

Thiospirillum jenense is a giant purple sulfur bacterium belonging to the gammaproteobacteria and has been an interesting object of study for almost two centuries, especially during the early years of microbiology. The bacterium was found originally by Ehrenberg (1838) and has only been able to be maintained transiently in enrichment cultures. We now sequenced the genome of Thiospirillum jenense DSM 216, type strain. The enrichment culture also contained the genomes for two minor contaminants, identified as Rhodopseudomonas palustris and Rhodoferax jenense 4810, which were separated out by metagenomic binning.