Complete Genome Assemblies for Three Variants of the Wolbachia Endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster.
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SUBMITTER: Basting PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6838615 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
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Complete Genome Assemblies for Three Variants of the <i>Wolbachia</i> Endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster.
Basting Preston J PJ Bergman Casey M CM
Microbiology resource announcements 20191107 45
Here, we report genome assemblies for three strains of <i>Wolbachia pipientis</i>, assembled from unenriched, unfiltered long-read shotgun sequencing data of geographically distinct strains of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> Our simple methodology can be applied to long-read data sets of other <i>Wolbachia</i>-infected species with limited <i>Wolbachia</i>-host lateral gene transfers to produce complete assemblies for this important model symbiont. ...[more]
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