Bacterial diversity of Murlen National Park located in Indo-Burman Biodiversity hotspot region: A metagenomic approach.
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SUBMITTER: De Mandal S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4583615 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
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Bacterial diversity of Murlen National Park located in Indo-Burman Biodiversity hotspot region: A metagenomic approach.
De Mandal Surajit S Zothansanga Lalremsanga H T HT Kumar Nachimuthu Senthil NS
Genomics data 20150508
Paired end Illumina Mi-Seq sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicon was carried out to study the bacterial community in the soil of Murlen National Park located in Indo-Burman Biodiversity hotspot region. Metagenome consisted of 302,416 reads with 151.81 Mb data and G + C content of 56.48%. More than 85% sequence was having a Phred score >=Q30 and individual sequence length was 251 bp. Metagenome sequence data are available at NCBI under the Bioproject database with accession no. SRP057136. Communit ...[more]
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