Genomic Analysis of 96 Bacteriophages Including 26 from Aotearoa, New Zealand.

The bacterium is responsible for the devastating honey bee () disease American Foulbrood. Research into bacteriophages that infect is growing rapidly due to increasing antibiotic resistance and restrictions on antibiotic use in beehives in some countries. In this study, we present the sequenced and annotated genomes of 26 novel phages recently isolated in New Zealand, which brings the total number of sequenced and annotated phages to 96.