Genome Sequence of a New Siphoviridae Phage Found in a Brazilian Bacillus thuringiensis Serovar israelensis Strain

Fabrício S Campos; Gil R Santos; Vitor L Nascimento; Roberto F T Corrêia; Alex S R Cangussu; Karen Hoffmann; Eugênio E Oliveira; Bergmann M Ribeiro; Raimundo W S Aguiar

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01606-17

Genome Sequence of a New Siphoviridae Phage Found in a Brazilian Bacillus thuringiensis Serovar israelensis Strain

Genome Announc. 2018 May 31;6(22):e01606-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01606-17.

Authors

Fabrício S Campos¹, Gil R Santos², Vitor L Nascimento², Roberto F T Corrêia¹, Alex S R Cangussu¹, Karen Hoffmann¹, Eugênio E Oliveira³, Bergmann M Ribeiro⁴, Raimundo W S Aguiar⁵

Affiliations

¹ Biotechnology Graduate Program, Federal University of Tocantins, Gurupi, Tocantins, Brazil.
² Plant Production Graduate Program, Federal University of Tocantins, Gurupi, Tocantins, Brazil.
³ Entomology Department, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁴ Molecule Biology Graduate Program, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil.
⁵ Biotechnology and Plant Production Graduate Program, Federal University of Tocantins, Gurupi, Tocantins, Brazil rwsa@mail.uft.edu.br.

Abstract

During the fermentation process, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) phages can result in bacterial death and decreased yield. In this work, we describe the genome of a new phage related to the Siphoviridae viral family from a Brazilian strain of Bt which showed high nucleotide sequence identity to the genomes of phages phi4l1 and BtCS33.