Correction for Sheflo et al., Complete Genome Sequences of Five Brevibacillus laterosporus Bacteriophages

Abstract

The species infected by the five bacteriophages was misidentified as Paenibacillus larvae. The article title should read as given above, and the organism identified as Paenibacillus larvae should be identified as Brevibacillus laterosporus throughout. Page 1: The abstract should read as follows. "Brevibacillus laterosporus is a secondary invader following European foulbrood (EFB) infection of honeybees. We isolated bacteriophages from soil containing bee debris collected near beehives in Utah. We announce five high-quality complete genome sequences, which represent the first completed genome sequences submitted to GenBank for any B. laterosporus bacteriophage." Page 1: The first paragraph of the text should read as follows. "Brevibacillus laterosporus is an anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium that invades beehives following European foulbrood (EFB) infection (1). Honeybee bacterial diseases, including EFB and American foulbrood (AFB), kill honeybee larvae, contribute to colony collapse disorder (2), and limit agricultural yields (3). Phage therapy is a potential treatment for bee foulbroods, yet few P. larvae-specific phages have been described (5-8), and prior to this work there was no research investigating B. laterosporus phages." Page 1, column 1: Lines 12 and 13 should read as follows. "The 16S rRNA sequencing showed similarity to two Paenibacillus larvae subsp. pulvifaciens (9) isolates, but further tests indicated that these samples were B. laterosporus." Page 1, column 2: Lines 16-18 should read as follows. "A coding potential map was generated using GeneMark 2.5p (14) for each phage based on Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579, the closest available relative to B. laterosporus."

Analysis of intact prophages in genomes of Paenibacillus larvae: An important pathogen for bees

“…The remaining 21 prophage genomes, when containing genes encoding the TSP were considered to belong to the Myoviridae family. Genome comparison revealed that, while 15 prophages were genetically close to members from the same family, ( Brevibacillus laterosporus phages Jimmer1, Jimmer2 and Abouo; Sheflo et al, 2013 ), the remaining six shared identity (84%–100%, with a coverage between 12% and 94%) with previously described siphoviruses, such as phage Lily.…”