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Identification of antibiotic resistance genes and associated mobile genetic elements in permafrost

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This work was supported by the Consulting Project about Bacterial Resistance from CAS, the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB29010202), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1200804).

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    Jian Cao, Fei Liu, Jun Wang, Baoli Zhu, Yi Shi & George Fu Gao

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    Shuli Liu

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Cao, J., Liu, F., Liu, S. et al. Identification of antibiotic resistance genes and associated mobile genetic elements in permafrost. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 2210–2213 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1926-0

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