Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to Caroline Brooks, Steven Macey, Alan Watkins and Wai-Yee Cheung, Swansea University, Swansea, UK for advice with the analysis. The authors are also grateful to the Health Information Research Unit (HIRU), College of Medicine, Swansea University, for preparing and providing access to the project specific linked datasets from the Secure Anonymised Info...

The thermophilic spore-forming bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus is responsible for powdered milk product spoilage, and its presence in dairy processing environments is a concern. Here, the complete genome sequence of the A. flavithermus strain 52-1A isolated from a heat-processed powdered milk product concentrate in Switzerland is presented.

Anoxybacillus thermarum AF/04(T) was isolated from the Euganean hot springs in Abano Terme, Italy. The present work reports a high-quality draft genome sequence of strain AF/04(T). This work also provides useful insights into glycoside hydrolases, glycoside transferases, and sugar transporters that may be involved in cellular carbohydrate metabolism.

Anoxybacillus flavithermus strain AK1 was isolated from Al-Ain Alhara, a thermal hot spring located 50 km southeast of the city of Gazan, Saudi Arabia (16°56'N, 43°15'E). The sequenced and annotated genome is 2,630,664 bp and encodes 2,799 genes.

Aerobic, endospore-forming bacteria that are attributed to the genus Bacillus or related genera constitute a hazard to the quality of gelatin. During repetitive extragenic palindromic DNA (rep)-PCR screening of gelatin isolates, a group of five isolates (group 1) and a group of 66 isolates (group 2) that did not match any pattern in our database were found. On the basis of 16S rDNA sequence ana...

Anoxybacillus mongoliensis strain MB4, an aerobic thermophile, was isolated from a hot spring located in central India. Its first draft genome sequence reported in this study comprises 2,807,516 bp and 2,853 protein-coding genes. Detailed genomic analysis indicates that it is capable of performing sulfur metabolism.

Spores of thermophilic spore-forming bacteria are a common cause of contamination in dairy products. We isolated the thermophilic strain Anoxybacillus flavithermus TNO-09.006 from a milk-processing plant, and we report the complete genome of this isolate consisting of a single chromosome of 2.65 Mb.

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the Anoxybacillus flavithermus Kn10 strain (NBRC 109594), isolated from a water drain of the Kan-nawa Hot Spring in Japan. The draft genome sequence is composed of 90 contigs for 2,772,624 bp with 41.6% G+C content and contains 2,883 protein-coding genes and 80 tRNA genes.