Diversity of the microbial community and cultivable protease-producing bacteria in the sediments of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and South China Sea

• Jiang Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang Zhang, Ming Chen, Jiafeng Huang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Ming Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang Zhang, Ming Chen, Jiafeng Huang

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Sanway Gene Technology Inc., Changsha, China

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• Jiafeng Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang Zhang, Ming Chen, Jiafeng Huang

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Xinwu Guo,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Sanway Gene Technology Inc., Changsha, China

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• Yanjiao Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, School of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

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• Dan Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Ribang Wu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Hailun He ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: helenhe@csu.edu.cn (HH); junwang@csu.edu.cn (GW)

  Affiliation School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2997-8446

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• Jun Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: helenhe@csu.edu.cn (HH); junwang@csu.edu.cn (GW)

  Affiliations School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, China, Sanway Gene Technology Inc., Changsha, China

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