Complete Genome Sequences of Nine Phages Capable of Infecting Paenibacillus larvae, the Causative Agent of American Foulbrood Disease in Honeybees

Philippos K Tsourkas; Diane G Yost; Andrew Krohn; Lucy LeBlanc; Anna Zhang; Casey Stamereilers; Penny S Amy

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01120-15

Complete Genome Sequences of Nine Phages Capable of Infecting Paenibacillus larvae, the Causative Agent of American Foulbrood Disease in Honeybees

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 15;3(5):e01120-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01120-15.

Authors

Philippos K Tsourkas¹, Diane G Yost², Andrew Krohn³, Lucy LeBlanc², Anna Zhang⁴, Casey Stamereilers², Penny S Amy²

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA philippos.tsourkas@unlv.edu.
² School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
³ Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
⁴ University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.

Abstract

We present here the complete genome sequences of nine phages that infect Paenibacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood disease in honeybees. The phages were isolated from soil, propolis, and infected bees from three U.S. states. This is the largest number of P. larvae phage genomes sequenced in a single publication to date.