Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus Group Phage TsarBomba

Ivan Erill; Steven M Caruso

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01178-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus Group Phage TsarBomba

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 15;3(5):e01178-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01178-15.

Authors

Ivan Erill¹, Steven M Caruso²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA scaruso@umbc.edu.

Abstract

The Bacillus cereus group bacteriophage TsarBomba, a double-stranded DNA Myoviridae, was isolated from soil collected in Saratov, Russia. TsarBomba was found to be similar to Bacillus phages BCP78 and BCU4, and to have a wide host range among Bacillus cereus group species.