Microbiomes, metagenomics, and primate conservation: New strategies, tools, and applications
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a C.R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA b Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA c Department of Human Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA d Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA e Department of Animal and Range Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA f Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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