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Journal of Bacteriology, January 2009, p. 445-446, Vol. 191, No. 1
0021-9193/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01347-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames "Ancestor"{triangledown}

Jacques Ravel,1* Lingxia Jiang,1,{ddagger} Scott T. Stanley,2,§ Mark R. Wilson,3,¶ R. Scott Decker,2,|| Timothy D. Read,1,# Patricia Worsham,4 Paul S. Keim,5 Steven L. Salzberg,1,{dagger}{dagger} Claire M. Fraser-Liggett,1,{dagger} and David A. Rasko1,{dagger}

The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850,1 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office, Washington, DC 20535,2 Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory, Quantico, Virginia 22135,3 United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702,4 Northern Arizona University and Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-40735

Received 28 September 2008/ Accepted 14 October 2008

ABSTRACT

The pathogenic bacterium Bacillus anthracis has become the subject of intense study as a result of its use in a bioterrorism attack in the United States in September and October 2001. Previous studies suggested that B. anthracis Ames Ancestor, the original Ames fully virulent plasmid-containing isolate, was the ideal reference. This study describes the complete genome sequence of that original isolate, derived from a sample kept in cold storage since 1981.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, BioPark II Room 611, 801 West Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Phone: (410) 706-5674. Fax: (410) 706-1482. E-mail: jravel{at}som.umaryland.edu

FOOTNOTES

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 24 October 2008.

{ddagger} Present address: Canon Life Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD 20850.

§ Present address: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Critical Incident Response Group, Quantico, VA 22135.

Present address: Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723.

|| Present address: Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, DC 20535.

# Present address: Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Rockville, MD 20851.

{dagger}{dagger} Present address: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

{dagger} Present address: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201.

Journal of Bacteriology, January 2009, p. 445-446, Vol. 191, No. 1
0021-9193/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01347-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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