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Purifying the Impure: Sequencing Metagenomes and Metatranscriptomes from Complex Animal-associated Samples
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Archaeal and Bacterial Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences Derived from Pig Feces
Matthew Crossfield1,2, Rachel Gilroy2, Anuradha Ravi2
1University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom.
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We report the recovery of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from fecal samples collected in 2018 from five healthy adult female pigs in southeast England. The resulting nonredundant catalog of 192 MAGs encompasses 102 metagenomic species, 41 of them novel, spanning 10 bacterial and 2 archaeal phyla.
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