Nitrosopumilus piranensis D3C was isolated from coastal surface water of the northern Adriatic Sea (approx. 0.5 m depth) off the coast of Piran, Slovenia, in December 2011. They can oxidize ammonia in
We obtained a high-purity (> 99%) ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) enrichment culture from mangrove sediments. Here, we provide a near-complete genome of the AOA strain named Candidatus Nitrososphaera