Here, we report the complete genome sequence of
Alteromonas stellipolaris
LMG 21856, which was isolated from seawater collected from the Southern Ocean.
A. stellipolaris
LMG 21856 is a budding, psychrotrophic, brown pigment-producing, and oligotrophic bacterium
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The complete genome of this bacterium contains 4,686,200 bp, with a G+C content of 43.6%.
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