- Lail, Kathleen;
- Sikorski, Johannes;
- Saunders, Elizabeth;
- Lapidus, Alla;
- Glavina Del Rio, Tijana;
- Copeland, Alex;
- Tice, Hope;
- Cheng, Jan-Fang;
- Lucas, Susan;
- Nolan, Matt;
- Bruce, David;
- Goodwin, Lynne;
- Pitluck, Sam;
- Ivanova, Natalia;
- Mavromatis, Konstantinos;
- Ovchinnikova, Galina;
- Pati, Amrita;
- Chen, Amy;
- Palaniappan, Krishna;
- Land, Miriam;
- Hauser, Loren;
- Chang, Yun-Juan;
- Jeffries, Cynthia D;
- Chain, Patrick;
- Brettin, Thomas;
- Detter, John C;
- Schütze, Andrea;
- Rohde, Manfred;
- Tindall, Brian J;
- Göker, Markus;
- Bristow, Jim;
- Eisen, Jonathan A;
- Markowitz, Victor;
- Hugenholtz, Philip;
- Kyrpides, Nikos C;
- Klenk, Hans-Peter;
- Chen, Feng
Spirosoma linguale Migula 1894 is the type species of the genus. S. linguale is a free-living and non-pathogenic organism, known for its peculiar ringlike and horseshoe-shaped cell morphology. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence and annotation. This is only the third completed genome sequence of a member of the family Cytophagaceae. The 8,491,258 bp long genome with its eight plasmids, 7,069 protein-coding and 60 RNA genes is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.