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Draft Genome Sequence of Tumebacillus sp. Strain BK434, Isolated from the Roots of Eastern Cottonwood
Dana L Carper1, Christopher W Schadt1, Leah H Burdick1
1Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
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|May 30, 2020
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A Gram-positive bacterium was isolated from the root of an eastern cottonwood tree (Populus deltoides) in Georgia and identified as a Tumebacillus species with 99% 16S rRNA nucleotide identity to Tumebacillus avium The genome is 4.6 Mbp and encodes 4,072 proteins and 251 RNAs.
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