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No functional genes except those related to CO oxidation were shared between the 11 species, which implied the absence of common molecular basis that underlies ecological interaction between p\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">cox<\/jats:italic>\n                      -CO oxidizers and other prokaryotes. Finally, we performed absolute quantification of four species of p\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">cox<\/jats:italic>\n                      -CO oxidizers that were predicted to be dominant in Osaka Bay, Japan. 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