Citation Murugapiran SK, Huntemann M, Wei C-L, Han J, Detter JC, Han CS, Erkkila TH, Teshima H, Chen A, Kyrpides N, Mavrommatis K, Markowitz V, Szeto E, Ivanova N, Pagani I, Lam J, McDonald AI, Dodsworth JA, Pati A, Goodwin L, Peters L, Pitluck S, Woyke T, Hedlund BP. 2013. Whole genome sequencing of Thermus oshimai JL-2 and Thermus thermophilus JL-18, incomplete denitrifiers from the United States Great Basin. Genome Announc. 1(1):e00106-12. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00106-12. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Additional support was provided by NSF grant no. MCB-0546865 and EPS-9977809. We are also grateful for support from Greg Fullmer through the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Foundation.