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Michael J Calcutt1, Mark F Foecking2
1Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA calcuttm@missouri.edu.
Genome Announcements
|October 17, 2015
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Presented here is the first completely assembled genome sequence of Kocuria palustris, an actinobacterial species with broad ecological distribution. The single, circular chromosome of K. palustris MU14/1 comprises 2,854,447 bp, has a G+C content of 70.5%, and contains a deduced gene set of 2,521 coding sequences.
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