Erratum to: Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x.].
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Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity
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دوره 3 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015