“…Strain K. xylinus BCRC 12334 has been exploited mainly in Taiwan (Kuo, Chen, Liou, & Lee, ; Wu & Liu, ). The strain ATCC 53582, also known as NQ5, has been commonly used in the research worldwide, which can be emphasized by the fact that it has been sequenced by two independent teams during the time of our work (Florea, Reeve, Abbott, Freemont, & Ellis, ; Pfeffer, Mehta, & Brown, 2016b). Especially recently, we can observe a steep increase in the number of sequenced Komagataeibacter genomes (Pfeffer, Mehta, & Brown, 2016a; Pfeffer, Santos, Ebels, Bordbar, & Brown, ,b,c; Wang et al., ; Zhang, Poehlein, Hollensteiner, & Daniel, ; Zhang et al., ).…”