This narrative was used for a complete genome sequence of a Starkeya species, an alphaproteobacterium. Other members of the genus have been identified in soil samples and rice straw1-4. This publication sequences an example isolated from a rhizosphere of a Populus deltoides tree in Oak Ridge, TN.
The publication by Mircea Podar, Joel Turner, Leah H. Burdick, and Dale A. Pelletier can be found here: https://mra.asm.org/content/9/27/e00644-20
Narrative created by Mircea Podar, edited by Zachary Crockett
An assembly and Genbank genome of the close relative, S. novella, were also imported for ocmparison.
CheckM was run on the assembled reads to verify quality control.