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  1. P G Department of Biotechnology, GGDSD College, Sector 32C, 160030, Chandigarh, India

    Navneet Batra, Sonu Bhatia & Arvind Behal

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

    Jagtar Singh

  3. Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, SGGS College, Chandigarh, India

    Amit Joshi

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Batra, N., Bhatia, S., Behal, A., Singh, J., Joshi, A. (2013). Metagenomic Research: Methods and Ecological Applications. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_766-2

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