First report on genome analysis and pathogenicity of Vibrio tubiashii FP17 from farmed Babylonia areolata.

Babylonia areolata, which is a commercially important aquaculture species in the southeast coast of China, has been greatly affected by vibriosis in recent years. Here, we isolated and identified a novel Vibrio tubiashii sp., named FP17 strain, from a farm of Hainan, where outbreak large-scale acute death of the spotted babylon. The complete genome of FP17 was sequenced and analyzed.