GenomicsbioRxiv
A Bacillus anthracis Genome Sequence from the Sverdlovsk 1979 Autopsy Specimens
Jason W. Sahl, Talima Pearson, Richard Okinaka…·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.
DOI 10.1128/mbio.01501-16