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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2207-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2207-2016
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15 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 15 Apr 2016

Metagenomic analyses of the late Pleistocene permafrost – additional tools for reconstruction of environmental conditions

Elizaveta Rivkina, Lada Petrovskaya, Tatiana Vishnivetskaya, Kirill Krivushin, Lyubov Shmakova, Maria Tutukina, Arthur Meyers, and Fyodor Kondrashov

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