A Bacillus anthracis Genome Sequence from the Sverdlovsk 1979 Autopsy Specimens
Jason W. Sahl, Talima Pearson, Richard Okinaka, James M. Schupp, John D. Gillece, Hannah Heaton, Dawn Birdsell, Crystal Hepp, Viacheslav Fofanov, Rámon Noseda, Antonio Fasanella, Alex Hoffmaster, David M. Wagner, Paul Keim
The paper generates a draft genome of the Sverdlovsk 1979 Bacillus anthracis strain and places it phylogenetically within a clade of vaccine strains, finding no evidence of genetic manipulation.
bioRxiv · Aug 16, 2016Genomics