Museum specimen metagenome
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Dataset's files
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| BCQK01.dat.gz | Other | |||
| BCQK01.fasta.gz | Fasta.gz | |||
| BCQK01.master.dat | Other | |||
| BCQL01.dat.gz | Other | |||
| BCQL01.fasta.gz | Fasta.gz |
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