Draft Genome Sequences of Two Bacillus anthracis Strains from Etosha National Park, Namibia
- Karoline Valsetha,b,
- Camilla L. Nesbøa,c,
- W. Ryan Easterdaya,
- Wendy C. Turnerd,
- Jaran S. Olsenb,
- Nils C. Stensetha,
- Thomas H. A. Haverkampa
- aCentre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
- bNorwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway
- cDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- dState University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
ABSTRACT
Bacillus anthracis strains K1 and K2 were isolated from two plains zebra anthrax carcasses in Etosha National Park, Namibia. These are draft genomes obtained by Illumina MiSeq sequencing of isolates collected from culture of blood-soaked soil from each carcass.
FOOTNOTES
- Address correspondence to Thomas H. A. Haverkamp, thhaverk{at}ibv.uio.no.
-
Citation Valseth K, Nesbø CL, Easterday WR, Turner WC, Olsen JS, Stenseth NC, Haverkamp THA. 2016. Draft genome sequences of two Bacillus anthracis strains from Etosha National Park, Namibia. Genome Announc 4(4):e00861-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00861-16.
- Received 24 June 2016.
- Accepted 29 June 2016.
- Published 25 August 2016.
- Copyright © 2016 Valseth et al.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
