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Hybrid De Novo Genome Assembly for the Generation of Complete Genomes of Urinary Bacteria using Short- and Long-read Sequencing Technologies
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Complete genome sequence of Methylorubrum sp. strain 263, a light-driven methylotrophic bacterium
Miyu Morishita1, Hideo Dohra2,3,4, Nobuyuki Yoshida1
1Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Abstract:
Methylorubrum sp. strain 263 is a pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophic bacterium showing light dependence for methylotrophic growth. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of strain 263 consisting of a chromosome (5,298,893 bp) and a circular plasmid (44,302 bp).
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