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Austin J Hammer1, Amber Walters1, Courtney Carroll1
1Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Genome Announcements
|July 8, 2017
Abstract:
The draft genome sequence of Lactobacillus paracasei DmW181, an anaerobic bacterium isolate from wild Drosophila flies, is reported here. Strain DmW181 possesses genes for sialic acid and mannose metabolism. The assembled genome is 3,201,429 bp, with 3,454 predicted genes.

