Draft genomes of novel avian <i>Chlamydia abortus</i> strains from Australian Torresian crows (<i>Corvus orru</i>) shed light on possible reservoir hosts and evolutionary pathways.

"chlamydia avian chlamydia abortus birds australia culture-independent sequencing multi-locus sequence typing (mlst) novel sequence type (st) openaccessembargo 0 the study sequences are available in the national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) under bioproject accession number prjna977824.; raw illumina sequence read data generated in this study have been deposited in the ncbi sequence read archive (sra; https://www ncbi nlm nih gov/sra ) under accession numbers srr24768373-srr24768375.; these were then submitted to the national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) sequence read archive (sra) under the bioproject accession number prjna977824."

"Conflicts of interest The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest."

"Funding information This research was funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DE190100238) awarded to M.J."