Retraction: A Fosmid Cloning Strategy for Detecting the Widest Possible Spectrum of Microbes from the International Space Station Drinking Water System

نویسندگان

  • Sangdun Choi
  • Mi Sook Chang
  • Tara Stuecker
  • Christine Chung
  • David A. Newcombe
  • Kasthuri Venkateswaran
چکیده

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