International Livestock Research Institute, PO Box 30709, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya ; International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, PO Box 30772, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 801 W. Baltimore Street BioPark II, 21201 Baltimore, MD USA.
Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany ; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany ; REBIRTH Cluster of Excellence, Hannover, Germany.
Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, SLU Global Bioinformatics Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE75007 Uppsala, Sweden.
International Livestock Research Institute, PO Box 30709, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) Muguga, PO Box 32-00902, Kikuyu, Kenya.
International Livestock Research Institute, PO Box 30709, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya ; Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA.
J. Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, 20850 Rockville, MD USA.
Lausanne Genomic Technologies Facility Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Institute for Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland.
International Livestock Research Institute, PO Box 30709, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya ; Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland.
Members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster' represent important livestock pathogens worldwide. Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides is the etiologic agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), which is still endemic in many parts of Africa. We report the genome sequences and annotation of two frequently used challenge strains of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides, Afadé and B237. The information provided will enable downstream 'omics' applications such as proteomics, transcriptomics and reverse vaccinology approaches. Despite the absence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae like cyto-adhesion encoding genes, the two strains showed the presence of protrusions. This phenotype is likely encoded by another set of genes.
