The Sanger Institute has completed the sequencing of and published the 1.85 Mb genome of S. uberis strain 0140J in collaboration with Dr. Duncan Maskell of the Centre for Veterinary Science, Dept. of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, The University of Cambridge, Prof. Mike Kehoe of the School of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle, Dr. Jamie Leigh and Dr. Phil Ward of the Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Prof. Christopher Dowson and Dr. Adrian Whatmore, of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, and Dr. Neil Chanter of the Centre for Preventative Medicine, Animal Health Trust.

Published Genome Data

The fully annotated genome has been deposited in the EMBL/GenBank databases with the accession number AM946015.

Shotgun and assembly data from this project are available from our FTP site.

• Evidence for niche adaptation in the genome of the bovine pathogen Streptococcus uberis.

  Ward PN, Holden MT, Leigh JA, Lennard N, Bignell A, Barron A, Clark L, Quail MA, Woodward J, Barrell BG, Egan SA, Field TR, Maskell D, Kehoe M, Dowson CG, Chanter N, Whatmore AM, Bentley SD and Parkhill J

  BMC genomics 2009;10;54

  PUBMED: 19175920; PMC: 2657157; DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-54