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Simplified and representative bacterial community of maize roots

Ben Niu, Joseph Nathaniel Paulson, Xiaoqi Zheng, and Roberto Kolter
PNAS published ahead of print March 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616148114
Ben Niu
aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115;
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Joseph Nathaniel Paulson
bDepartment of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115;cDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
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Xiaoqi Zheng
bDepartment of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115;dDepartment of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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Roberto Kolter
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  • For correspondence: roberto_kolter@hms.harvard.edu

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