Complete Genome Sequences of Bacillus Phages DirtyBetty and Kida

Kelly Flounlacker; Rachel Miller; Diana Marquez; Allison Johnson; the 2015–2016 VCU Phage Hunters

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01385-16

Complete Genome Sequences of Bacillus Phages DirtyBetty and Kida

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 9;5(10):e01385-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01385-16.

Authors

Kelly Flounlacker¹, Rachel Miller¹, Diana Marquez¹, Allison Johnson²; the 2015–2016 VCU Phage Hunters

Collaborators

the 2015–2016 VCU Phage Hunters:
Sarah Adkins, Adithya Balu, Ruairidh Barlow, Victoria Buchan, Erin Cochran, Kelly Flounlacker, Emily Gardner, Syed Hasan, Brittany Hazard, Amay Iyer, Steven Jermstad, Robert Kalish, Ayub Khan, Rachel Miller, Rishabh Patel, Micah Powell, Nikhita Puthuveetil, Danny Rayes, Jennifer Snyder, Gabrielle Strandquist, Keerthana Vishwanath, Mitchell Vu, Rahul Warrier, Bethany Yachuw, Jane Yang

Affiliations

¹ Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
² Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA aajohnson@vcu.edu.

Abstract

We report here the genome sequences of two bacteriophages of the Bacillus cereus group, DirtyBetty and Kida. These bacteriophages are double-stranded DNA-containing Myoviridae isolated from soil samples using Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki as their host bacteria.