Closing Clostridium botulinum Group I Genomes Using a Combination of Short- and Long-Reads
Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, spore-forming anaerobic bacterium that produces botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT). Closing their genomes provides information about their neurotoxin clusters’ arrangement(s) and their location (e.g., chromosome or plasmid) which cannot be assessed using draft geno...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00239/full |