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Daan R Speth1, Lina Russ2, Boran Kartal2
1Ecological Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands d.speth@science.ru.nl.
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|January 10, 2015
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We present the draft genome of anammox bacterium "Candidatus Scalindua brodae," which at 282 contigs is a major improvement over the highly fragmented genome assembly of related species "Ca. Scalindua profunda" (1,580 contigs) which was previously published.
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