Complete Genome Sequence of the Bacillus pumilus Phage Leo2

Sondos Badran; Nathanael Morales; Phillip Schick; Brandon Jacoby; William Villella; Todd Lorenz

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00066-18

Complete Genome Sequence of the Bacillus pumilus Phage Leo2

Genome Announc. 2018 Feb 15;6(7):e00066-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00066-18.

Authors

Sondos Badran^#¹, Nathanael Morales^#¹, Phillip Schick¹, Brandon Jacoby¹, William Villella², Todd Lorenz³

Affiliations

¹ Biology Department, University of La Verne, La Verne, California, USA.
² Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Biology Department, University of La Verne, La Verne, California, USA tlorenz@laverne.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Bacillus spp. are ubiquitous Gram-positive microbes with many ecological and symbiotic interactions and can be pathogens. Phage Leo2 was found to infect a Bacillus pumilus strain isolated from soil. The sequence of phage Leo2 revealed 74 genes; 31% of the genes have associated functions, and 67% of coding regions are unidentified open reading frames.