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Comment
. 2018 Feb;12(2):309-311.
doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.188. Epub 2017 Oct 20.

Uncultivated microbes-in need of their own nomenclature?

Aharon Oren  1 , George M Garrity  2
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Uncultivated microbes-in need of their own nomenclature?

Aharon Oren et al. ISME J. 2018 Feb.
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