Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus LCT-BC25, Isolated from Space Flight

Xuelin Zhang; Tong Wang; Longxiang Su; Lisha Zhou; Tianzhi Li; Junfeng Wang; Yan Liu; Xuege Jiang; Chunyan Wu; Changting Liu

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00667-13

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus LCT-BC25, Isolated from Space Flight

Genome Announc. 2014 Jan 2;2(1):e00667-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00667-13.

Authors

Xuelin Zhang¹, Tong Wang, Longxiang Su, Lisha Zhou, Tianzhi Li, Junfeng Wang, Yan Liu, Xuege Jiang, Chunyan Wu, Changting Liu

Affiliation

¹ Nanlou Respiratory Diseases Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Bacillus cereus strain LCT-BC25, which was carried by the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft, traveled in space for about 398 h. To investigate the response of B. cereus to space environments, we determined the genome sequence of B. cereus strain LCT-BC25, which was isolated after space flight.