Additional genome projects for Bacillus subtilis and other Bacilli

Genome projects for other B. subtilis strains

• B. subtilis PS216, a transformable, biofilm-forming strain PubMed
• B. subtilis natto PubMed
• B. subtilis spizizenii W23 PubMed
• B. subtilis QB928 PubMed
• B. subtilis BSP1 isolated from poultry gut PubMed

Genome projects for other Bacillus species

• Bacillus amyloliquefaciens PubMed
• B. anthracis Ames PubMed
• B. cereus PubMed
• B. coagulans 2-6 PubMed
• B. licheniformis PubMed
• B. megaterium DMS319 PubMed
• B. thuringiensis PubMed

Genomics of the genus Bacillus and of Firmicutes

Luis David Alcaraz, Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, Luis E Eguiarte, Valeria Souza, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Gabriela Olmedo
Understanding the evolutionary relationships and major traits of Bacillus through comparative genomics.
BMC Genomics: 2010, 11;332
[PubMed:20504335] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Genome papers

Additional publications: PubMed

Ghislain Schyns, Cláudia R Serra, Thomas Lapointe, José B Pereira-Leal, Sébastien Potot, Patrick Fickers, John B Perkins, Markus Wyss, Adriano O Henriques
Genome of a Gut Strain of Bacillus subtilis.
Genome Announc: 2013, 1(1);
[PubMed:23409263] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Chi-Shing Yu, Kay-Yuen Yim, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui, Ting-Fung Chan
Complete genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis strain QB928, a strain widely used in B. subtilis genetic studies.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(22);6308-9
[PubMed:23105055] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ashlee M Earl, Mark Eppinger, W Florian Fricke, M J Rosovitz, David A Rasko, Sean Daugherty, Richard Losick, Roberto Kolter, Jacques Ravel
Whole-genome sequences of Bacillus subtilis and close relatives.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(9);2378-9
[PubMed:22493193] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Daniel R Zeigler
The genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii W23: insights into speciation within the B. subtilis complex and into the history of B. subtilis genetics.
Microbiology (Reading): 2011, 157(Pt 7);2033-2041
[PubMed:21527469] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christian Rückert, Jochen Blom, Xiaohua Chen, Oleg Reva, Rainer Borriss
Genome sequence of B. amyloliquefaciens type strain DSM7(T) reveals differences to plant-associated B. amyloliquefaciens FZB42.
J Biotechnol: 2011, 155(1);78-85
[PubMed:21262282] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Silke R Klee, Elzbieta B Brzuszkiewicz, Herbert Nattermann, Holger Brüggemann, Susann Dupke, Antje Wollherr, Tatjana Franz, Georg Pauli, Bernd Appel, Wolfgang Liebl, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Christophe Boesch, Frauke-Dorothee Meyer, Fabian H Leendertz, Heinz Ellerbrok, Gerhard Gottschalk, Roland Grunow, Heiko Liesegang
The genome of a Bacillus isolate causing anthrax in chimpanzees combines chromosomal properties of B. cereus with B. anthracis virulence plasmids.
PLoS One: 2010, 5(7);e10986
[PubMed:20634886] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Yukari Nishito, Yasunori Osana, Tsuyoshi Hachiya, Kris Popendorf, Atsushi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Mitsuhiro Itaya, Yasubumi Sakakibara
Whole genome assembly of a natto production strain Bacillus subtilis natto from very short read data.
BMC Genomics: 2010, 11;243
[PubMed:20398357] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Jacques Ravel, Lingxia Jiang, Scott T Stanley, Mark R Wilson, R Scott Decker, Timothy D Read, Patricia Worsham, Paul S Keim, Steven L Salzberg, Claire M Fraser-Liggett, David A Rasko
The complete genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames "Ancestor".
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(1);445-6
[PubMed:18952800] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jean F Challacombe, Michael R Altherr, Gary Xie, Smriti S Bhotika, Nancy Brown, David Bruce, Connie S Campbell, Mary L Campbell, Jin Chen, Olga Chertkov, Cathy Cleland, Mira Dimitrijevic, Norman A Doggett, John J Fawcett, Tijana Glavina, Lynne A Goodwin, Lance D Green, Cliff S Han, Karen K Hill, Penny Hitchcock, Paul J Jackson, Paul Keim, Avinash Ramesh Kewalramani, Jon Longmire, Susan Lucas, Stephanie Malfatti, Diego Martinez, Kim McMurry, Linda J Meincke, Monica Misra, Bernice L Moseman, Mark Mundt, A Christine Munk, Richard T Okinaka, B Parson-Quintana, Lee Philip Reilly, Paul Richardson, Donna L Robinson, Elizabeth Saunders, Roxanne Tapia, Judith G Tesmer, Nina Thayer, Linda S Thompson, Hope Tice, Lawrence O Ticknor, Patti L Wills, Paul Gilna, Thomas S Brettin
The complete genome sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis Al Hakam.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(9);3680-1
[PubMed:17337577] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Michael W Rey, Preethi Ramaiya, Beth A Nelson, Shari D Brody-Karpin, Elizabeth J Zaretsky, Maria Tang, Alfredo Lopez de Leon, Henry Xiang, Veronica Gusti, Ib Groth Clausen, Peter B Olsen, Michael D Rasmussen, Jens T Andersen, Per L Jørgensen, Thomas S Larsen, Alexei Sorokin, Alexander Bolotin, Alla Lapidus, Nathalie Galleron, S Dusko Ehrlich, Randy M Berka
Complete genome sequence of the industrial bacterium Bacillus licheniformis and comparisons with closely related Bacillus species.
Genome Biol: 2004, 5(10);R77
[PubMed:15461803] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Birgit Veith, Christina Herzberg, Silke Steckel, Jörg Feesche, Karl Heinz Maurer, Petra Ehrenreich, Sebastian Bäumer, Anke Henne, Heiko Liesegang, Rainer Merkl, Armin Ehrenreich, Gerhard Gottschalk
The complete genome sequence of Bacillus licheniformis DSM13, an organism with great industrial potential.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2004, 7(4);204-11
[PubMed:15383718] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

David A Rasko, Jacques Ravel, Ole Andreas Økstad, Erlendur Helgason, Regina Z Cer, Lingxia Jiang, Kelly A Shores, Derrick E Fouts, Nicolas J Tourasse, Samuel V Angiuoli, James Kolonay, William C Nelson, Anne-Brit Kolstø, Claire M Fraser, Timothy D Read
The genome sequence of Bacillus cereus ATCC 10987 reveals metabolic adaptations and a large plasmid related to Bacillus anthracis pXO1.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2004, 32(3);977-88
[PubMed:14960714] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Natalia Ivanova, Alexei Sorokin, Iain Anderson, Nathalie Galleron, Benjamin Candelon, Vinayak Kapatral, Anamitra Bhattacharyya, Gary Reznik, Natalia Mikhailova, Alla Lapidus, Lien Chu, Michael Mazur, Eugene Goltsman, Niels Larsen, Mark D'Souza, Theresa Walunas, Yuri Grechkin, Gordon Pusch, Robert Haselkorn, Michael Fonstein, S Dusko Ehrlich, Ross Overbeek, Nikos Kyrpides
Genome sequence of Bacillus cereus and comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis.
Nature: 2003, 423(6935);87-91
[PubMed:12721630] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Timothy D Read, Scott N Peterson, Nicolas Tourasse, Les W Baillie, Ian T Paulsen, Karen E Nelson, Hervé Tettelin, Derrick E Fouts, Jonathan A Eisen, Steven R Gill, Erik K Holtzapple, Ole Andreas Okstad, Erlendur Helgason, Jennifer Rilstone, Martin Wu, James F Kolonay, Maureen J Beanan, Robert J Dodson, Lauren M Brinkac, Michelle Gwinn, Robert T DeBoy, Ramana Madpu, Sean C Daugherty, A Scott Durkin, Daniel H Haft, William C Nelson, Jeremy D Peterson, Mihai Pop, Hoda M Khouri, Diana Radune, Jonathan L Benton, Yasmin Mahamoud, Lingxia Jiang, Ioana R Hance, Janice F Weidman, Kristi J Berry, Roger D Plaut, Alex M Wolf, Kisha L Watkins, William C Nierman, Alyson Hazen, Robin Cline, Caroline Redmond, Joanne E Thwaite, Owen White, Steven L Salzberg, Brendan Thomason, Arthur M Friedlander, Theresa M Koehler, Philip C Hanna, Anne-Brit Kolstø, Claire M Fraser
The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria.
Nature: 2003, 423(6935);81-6
[PubMed:12721629] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)