The Functional Potential of Microbial Communities in Hydraulic Fracturing Source Water and Produced Water from Natural Gas Extraction Characterized by Metagenomic Sequencing

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Arvind Murali Mohan,

Affiliations National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Kyle J. Bibby,

Affiliations National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Daniel Lipus,

Affiliations National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Richard W. Hammack,

Affiliation National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Kelvin B. Gregory

* E-mail: kelvin@cmu.edu

Affiliations National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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