Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus luciferensis Isolated from Soil

Loni Townsley; Lews Caro; Hemant Kelkar; Elizabeth A Shank

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01140-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus luciferensis Isolated from Soil

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 20;4(5):e01140-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01140-16.

Authors

Loni Townsley¹, Lews Caro¹, Hemant Kelkar², Elizabeth A Shank^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
² Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
³ Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA eshank@unc.edu.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁵ Curriculum of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

Bacillus luciferensis is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, motile rod. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence, to our knowledge, of a B. luciferensis strain (CH01), which will provide useful information for Bacillus and soil bacteria research.

Grants and funding

R01 GM112981/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States