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  1. Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, 1101 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Jack Gilbert

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Gilbert, J. (2014). Ocean Metagenomics. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_40-2

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