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Eric C Keen1, Valery V Bliskovsky2, Sankar L Adhya3
1The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA e.keen@wustl.edu.
Abstract:
We sequenced a naturally competent bacterial isolate, WY10, cultured from a Wyoming soil sample. Sequence analysis revealed that WY10 is a novel strain of Bacillus simplex To our knowledge, WY10 is the first B. simplex strain to be characterized as naturally competent for DNA uptake by transformation.
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