Multi-heavy metal tolerant bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis MH778713 (formerly Bacillus cereus)

The goal was to describe and characterize a previously identified as Bacillus cereus (MH778713), a chromium hyper-tolerant strain, isolated from mesquite trees (Prosopis laevigata) in Mexico, by 16S rDNA and rpoB gene sequence analysis. Now Long-read genomic sequencing was conducted for Bacillus cereus MH778713, resulting in a high-quality, near-chromosome-level, genome with an assembly length of 5.9 Mbp allowed us to identify it as Bacillus thuringiensis.