Draft genome sequences were generated from several BGstrains in our collection. A summary of the results from the sequenced isolates is indicated in Table 3 . All of the ''military'' isolates (Detrick clones1through 3, BACI051, Dugway) were extremely closely related to each other and to both ATCC9372 variants. The ATCC isolates possessed additional mutations that were absent in the ''military'' isolates. The size of the finished and closed genome of B. atrophaeus var. globigii 1942 was 4,168,266 bp, and annotation using RAST [22] revealed 4433 features, including 4343 proteincoding sequencesand 90 RNA molecules [28] . The preliminary annotations derived from RAST are available as Genbank .gbk files in the supplementary material.