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Welcome
to the Bacillus Genetic Stock Center (BGSC) web site. Our primary mission is
to maintain genetically characterized strains, cloning vectors, and bacteriophage for the
genus Bacillus and related organisms and to distribute these materials without
prejudice to qualified scientists and educators throughout the world. Since 1978, the National Science Foundation has funded the activities of the BGSC. The Department of Biochemistry in the College
of Biological Sciences at The Ohio State University provides facilities and
administrative support. The Director of the BGSC is
Dr.
Daniel R. Zeigler. For profit users may pay a $60 per culture fee or may subscribe to
a yearly service plan for $1000. Academic and non-profit users are asked to make a
voluntary payment of $100 per year. No academic scientist will be turned away, even
if he or she lacks funds. Currently, the collection includes:
890
strains derived from Bacillus subtilis 168, including auxotrophic,
sporulation, germination, and silent transposon insertion mutants; 66 B. subtilis plasmid-bearing
strains; 54 B. subtilis lysogenic strains; and 26 B. subtilis isolates from
non-168 backgrounds;
145
strains of Bacillus thuringiensis; 16 B. thuringiensis phages; and 10
cloned cry genes;
13
strains of Bacillus cereus; 4 B. cereus phages; and a B. cereus
genomic BAC library;
39
strains of Bacillus licheniformis; 38 genetically characterized wild-type and
mutant strains of Bacillus megaterium;
33
genetically characterized wild-type and mutant strains from the genus Geobacillus;
63
isolates from other related species, including B. amyloliquefaciens, B. atrophaeus, B.
pumilus, B. sphaericus, B. badius, B. polymyxa, B. subtilis natto, B.
fusiformis, B. clausii, Brevibacillus brevis,
Bb. laterosporus, Paenibacillus
alvei,
Pb. vorticalis, Pb. dendritiformus,
Pb. popilliae, Marinibacillus marinus and
Salibacillus marismortui;
128
Escherichia coli strains bearing shuttle plasmids or cloned Bacillus DNA;
The
strain collections of Allan A. Yousten, Stanley A. Zahler, and the late Ernst W. Freese.
New!
RecA-independent Integration Vector for B. subtilis!
New! Shuttle Vector with Inducible
Expression, Ligation-Independent Cloning
Now Available: High Titer PBS1 Lysates
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