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To allow for maximum dissemination of research, ASM open access articles are currently published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, which allows unrestricted reuse of the material with proper attribution. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. mBio®, Microbiology Resource Announcements (MRA), Microbiology Spectrum®, mSphere®, and mSystems® are open access journals; every article published in them is covered by this license.

JMBE

ASM publishes the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education® content under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the published work, as long as credit to the author and original article is given. This material may not be used for commerical purposes and if you build on, transform or adapt the material you may not distribute the modified material.

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mBio

ASM publishes mBio articles under Creative Commons Attribution licenses. Starting in 2016, articles are covered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, adapt, link to, reorganize, and build upon the published work for any purpose, even commercially, as long as credit to the author and original article is given.

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(Note that articles published prior to 2016 are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial--ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.)

ANY USE of mBio journal content in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author and publisher attribution, date, article title, mBio, and the URL http://mbio.asm.org/. If an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work, this must be clearly indicated.

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MRA

ASM publishes Microbiology Resource Announcements content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, adapt, link to, reorganize, and build upon the published work for any purpose, even commercially, as long as credit to the author and original article is given.

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Microbiology Resource Announcements Online ISSN 2576-098X

Microbiology Resource Announcements began as Genome Announcements in 2013 and was published with this title through 5 July 2018 (Volumes 1-6). Genome Announcements content was published under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Starting in 2016, Genome Announcements articles were covered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may copy, distribute, adapt, reorganize, and build upon the published work, as long as credit to the author and original article is given, and the new work, which includes the previously published content, is licensed under identical terms. (Note that articles published prior to 2016 are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.)

Genome Announcements Online ISSN 2169-8287

ANY USE of Microbiology Resource Announcements or Genome Announcements journal content in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author and publisher attribution, date, article title, Journal title, and the URL http://mra.asm.org/. If an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work, this must be clearly indicated.

Microbiology Spectrum

ASM publishes Microbiology® content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, adapt, link to, reorganize, and build upon the published work, as long as credit to the author and original article is given, and the new work, which includes the previously published content, is licensed under identical terms.

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mSphere

ASM publishes mSphere® content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, adapt, link to, reorganize, and build upon the published work, as long as credit to the author and original article is given, and the new work, which includes the previously published content, is licensed under identical terms.

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mSystems

ASM publishes mSystems® content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, adapt, link to, reorganize, and build upon the published work, as long as credit to the author and original article is given, and the new work, which includes the previously published content, is licensed under identical terms.

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