Retraction: A Fosmid Cloning Strategy for Detecting the Widest Possible Spectrum of Microbes from the International Space Station Drinking Water System
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The editorial committee of Genomics & Informatics has concluded that a substantial portion of the above article [1] was ‘copied and pasted’ from earlier publications without appropriate attribution. Although the plagiarized texts are detected only in the Introduction section [2], such a misconduct is unacceptable in a scientific writing. The authors have acknowledged plagiarism in the above article and requested retraction.
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دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013