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Capsaspora owczarzaki

ABSTRACT: An amoeboid symbiont of a pulmonate snail

PROVIDER: PRJNA20337 | ENA |

REPOSITORIES: ENA

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	DRR612746_1.fastq.gz	Fastqsanger.gz
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