Edwardsiella tarda strain:ET883 Genome sequencing and assembly. Edwardsiella tarda strain:ET883

Edwardsiella bacteria are leading fish pathogens causing huge losses to aquaculture industries worldwide. However, the taxa are now widely recognized to be misclassified, which hurdled the understanding of the epidemiology and development of effective diagnostics and vaccines. Current-ly the genus Edwardsiella is divided into three species Edwardsiella tarda, E. ictaluri, E. hoshinae. Previous phylogenomic analysis revealed that two genomics types (genotypes), EdwGI and EdwGII, exist in E. tarda, and EdwGI represents a genotype of fish pathogens in the Edwardsiella lineage and is proposed as E. piscicida, sp. nov..