The Genome of Akkermansia muciniphila, a Dedicated Intestinal Mucin Degrader, and Its Use in Exploring Intestinal Metagenomes

• Mark W. J. van Passel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark W. J. van Passel, Ravi Kant

  * E-mail: mark.vanpassel@wur.nl

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Ravi Kant ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark W. J. van Passel, Ravi Kant

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Erwin G. Zoetendal,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Caroline M. Plugge,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Muriel Derrien,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Stephanie A. Malfatti,

  Affiliations DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

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• Patrick S. G. Chain,

  Affiliations DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Tanja Woyke,

  Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Airi Palva,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Willem M. de Vos,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Hauke Smidt

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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