Various Planctomycetes species isolated from different algal biofilms from Helgoland, Germany - Genome sequencing and assembly. Planctomycetes species

Planctomycetes are bacteria that were long thought to be “unculturable” organisms with low abundancy in nature, thus, a neglectable role in environmental systems. In recent years, the presence of Planctomycetes in the environment has been found to have a rather ubiquitous character and novel strains, mostly from aquatic environments, were brought into pure culture. However, the number of available cultured planctomycetes and thus the resolution if their phylogeny is still scarce. Here we present five novel planctomycetes strains from the biofilm communities of three different marine macroalgae collected from the North Sea.