The DNA sequence of Citrobacter freundii ballerup 7851 was obtained by 454 FLX pyrosequencing, assembled using the 454/Roche Newbler assembly program.

Published Genome Data

357 contigs (N50 contig size 60,237 bp) were obtained from 410,057 sequence reads with an average read length of 177 bp, to give a total sequence length of 4,904,659 bp. The data are available in the European Nucleotide Archive with accession ERA000106.

• The Citrobacter rodentium genome sequence reveals convergent evolution with human pathogenic Escherichia coli.

  Petty NK, Bulgin R, Crepin VF, Cerdeño-Tárraga AM, Schroeder GN, Quail MA, Lennard N, Corton C, Barron A, Clark L, Toribio AL, Parkhill J, Dougan G, Frankel G and Thomson NR

  Journal of bacteriology 2010;192;2;525-38

  PUBMED: 19897651; PMC: 2805327; DOI: 10.1128/JB.01144-09