A small step to discover candidate biological control agents from preexisting bioresources by using novel nonribosomal peptide synthetases hidden in activated sludge metagenomes

• Shun Tomita ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tomita.s@aist.go.jp (ST); t.narihiro@aist.go.jp (TN)

  Affiliation Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4554-1073

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• Kyohei Kuroda,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3681-1265

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• Takashi Narihiro

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tomita.s@aist.go.jp (ST); t.narihiro@aist.go.jp (TN)

  Affiliation Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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