Life in a World without Microbes
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1 Institute for Genomic and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America, 2 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, 3 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 5 Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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