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Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis INTA Fr7-4
Laura E Navas1,2, Marcelo F Berretta3,2, Elio M Ortiz3,2
1Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina navas.laura@inta.gob.ar.
Genome Announcements
|April 1, 2017
Abstract:
We report here the complete annotated 6,035,547-bp draft genome sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis INTA Fr7-4. This strain contains three cry8 and two vip1 and vip2 insecticidal toxin genes.
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