A Phylometagenomic Exploration of Oceanic Alphaproteobacteria Reveals Mitochondrial Relatives Unrelated to the SAR11 Clade

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Björn Brindefalk ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Björn Brindefalk, Thijs J. G. Ettema

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
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Thijs J. G. Ettema ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Björn Brindefalk, Thijs J. G. Ettema

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
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Johan Viklund,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
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Mikael Thollesson,

Current address: Department of Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
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Siv G. E. Andersson

* E-mail: Siv.Andersson@ebc.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
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