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        <author>Jeroen Raes</author>
        <author>Manimozhiyan Arumugam</author>
        <author>Kristoffer Sølvsten Burgdorf</author>
        <author>Chaysavanh Manichanh</author>
        <author>Trine Nielsen</author>
        <author>Nicolas Pons</author>
        <author>Florence Levenez</author>
        <author>Takuji Yamada</author>
        <author>Daniel R. Mende</author>
        <author>Junhua Li</author>
        <author>Junming Xu</author>
        <author>Shaochuan Li</author>
        <author>Dongfang Li</author>
        <author>Jianjun Cao</author>
        <author>Bo Wang</author>
        <author>Huiqing Liang</author>
        <author>Huisong Zheng</author>
        <author>Yinlong Xie</author>
        <author>Julien Tap</author>
        <author>Patricia Lepage</author>
        <author>Marcelo Bertalan</author>
        <author>Jean-Michel Batto</author>
        <author>Torben Hansen</author>
        <author>Denis Le Paslier</author>
        <author>Allan Linneberg</author>
        <author>H. Bjørn Nielsen</author>
        <author>Éric Pelletier</author>
        <author>Pierre Renault</author>
        <author>Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén</author>
        <author>A. Keith Turner</author>
        <author>Hongmei Zhu</author>
        <author>Chang Yu</author>
        <author>Shengting Li</author>
        <author>Min Jian</author>
        <author>Yan Zhou</author>
        <author>Rui Li</author>
        <author>Xiuqing Zhang</author>
        <author>Songgang Li</author>
        <author>Nan Qin</author>
        <author>Huanming Yang</author>
        <author>Jian Wang</author>
        <author>Jian Wang</author>
        <author>Søren Brunak</author>
        <author>Joël Doré</author>
        <author>Francisco Guarner</author>
        <author>Karsten Kristiansen</author>
        <author>Oluf Pedersen</author>
        <author>Julian Parkhill</author>
        <author>Jean Weissenbach</author>
        <author>Peer Bork</author>
        <author>S. Dusko Ehrlich</author>
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          <title>A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing</title>
          <date>2010</date>
          <publisher>Nature</publisher>
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        <label>3.3 million non-redundant microbial genes from the faecal metagenomes of 124 European adults</label>
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        <label>a reference gene catalogue, plus the minimal gut metagenome and minimal gut bacterial genome as defined terms</label>
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