The genome of Pelosinus fermentans JBW45, isolated from a chromium-contaminated site in Hanford, Washington, USA, has been completed with PacBio sequencing. Nine copies of the rRNA gene operon and multiple transposase genes with identical sequences resulted in breaks in the original draft genome and may suggest genomic instability of JBW45.
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Clean Energy Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea; Division of Energy and Environment Technology, KIST School, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
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Environmental Management Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 395-8569, Japan. Electronic address:
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Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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