Draft Genome Sequences of Two Bacillus anthracis Strains from Etosha National Park, Namibia

Karoline Valseth; Camilla L Nesbø; W Ryan Easterday; Wendy C Turner; Jaran S Olsen; Nils C Stenseth; Thomas H A Haverkamp

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00861-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Bacillus anthracis Strains from Etosha National Park, Namibia

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 25;4(4):e00861-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00861-16.

Authors

Karoline Valseth¹, Camilla L Nesbø², W Ryan Easterday³, Wendy C Turner⁴, Jaran S Olsen⁵, Nils C Stenseth³, Thomas H A Haverkamp⁶

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway.
² Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
³ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway.
⁴ State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA.
⁵ Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway.
⁶ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway [email protected].

Abstract

Bacillus anthracis strains K1 and K2 were isolated from two plains zebra anthrax carcasses in Etosha National Park, Namibia. These are draft genomes obtained by Illumina MiSeq sequencing of isolates collected from culture of blood-soaked soil from each carcass.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a Research Council of Norway award (project no. 180444/V40) to C.L.N. and NSF OISE-1103054 to W.C.T.