Publications by authors named "Casey Stamereilers"

The bacterium is the causative agent of American foulbrood, the most devastating bacterial disease of honeybees. Because is antibiotic resistant, phages that infect it are currently used as alternative treatments. However, the acquisition by of CRISPR spacer sequences from the phages could be an obstacle to treatment efforts.

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Despite the high abundance of in many geothermal systems, these bacteria are difficult to culture and no viruses infecting members of this phylum have been isolated. Here, we describe the complete, circular dsDNA Uncultivated Virus Genome (UViG) of Octopus Spring virus (TOSV), derived from metagenomic data, along with eight related UViGs representing three additional viral species. Despite low overall similarity among viruses from different hot springs, the genomes shared a high degree of synteny, and encoded numerous genes for nucleotide metabolism, including a PolA-type DNA polymerase polyprotein with likely accessory functions, a DNA Pol III sliding clamp, a thymidylate kinase, a DNA gyrase, a helicase, and a DNA methylase.

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We present here the complete genomes of 18 phages that infect Paenibacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood in honeybees. The phages were isolated between 2014 and 2016 as part of an undergraduate phage discovery course at Brigham Young University. The phages were isolated primarily from bee debris and lysogens.

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The antibiotic-resistant bacterium is the causative agent of American foulbrood (AFB), currently the most destructive bacterial disease in honeybees. Phages that infect were isolated as early as the 1950s, but it is only in recent years that phage genomes have been sequenced and annotated. In this study we analyze the genomes of all 48 currently sequenced phage genomes and classify them into four clusters and a singleton.

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We present here the complete genomes of eight phages that infect , the causative agent of American foulbrood in honeybees. Phage PBL1c was originally isolated in 1984 from a lysogen, while the remaining phages were isolated in 2014 from bee debris, honeycomb, and lysogens from three states in the USA.

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American Foulbrood Disease, caused by the bacterium , is one of the most destructive diseases of the honeybee, . Our group recently published the sequences of 9 new phages with the ability to infect and lyse . Here, we characterize the genomes of these phages, compare them to each other and to other sequenced phages, and putatively identify protein function.

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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.

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