Dataset for: Tritonibacter horizontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Rhodobacteraceae, isolated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

A heterotrophic, gram-stain-negative, aerobic, sodium-requiring and motile bacterium was isolated from oil-contaminated surface water of the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Strain O3.65T showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Phaeobacter gallaeciensis BS107T and Phaeobacter inhibens T5T, both with 98.3 %, respectively. Based on complete genome analysis, highest similarity was observed to species of the genus Ruegeria. Phylogenetic, phylogenomic and phenotypic differences revealed that strain O3.65T represents a new species of a novel genus within the family Rhodobacteraceae, for which we propose the name Tritonibacter horizontis gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of the type species is O3.65T (=DSM 101689 T =LMG 29740 T). Repository UDI: The GenBank accession number for the genome sequence of Tritonibacter horizontis O3.65 is LPUY00000000.1. The locus_tag including the 16S rRNA gene sequence is TRIHO_RS00090. The sample was collected on June 1st, 2010 and the strain was isolated from the location close to the Macondo wellhead (28.732778°C -88.383222°C) in the Gulf of Mexico. This dataset supports the publication: Klotz, F., Brinkhoff, T., Freese, H. M., Wietz, M., Teske, A., Simon, M., & Giebel, H.-A. (2018). Tritonibacter horizontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Rhodobacteraceae, isolated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68(3), 736–744. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002573