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Sievers, M. (2013). Culture Collections in the Study of Microbial Diversity, Importance. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_741-4

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