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  • 1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China; School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China; Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China.

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