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This chapter has been retracted at the request of the Publisher and Editors due to a violation of Springer’s Publishing Principles as part of the content of the chapter DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_2 has been duplicated from different research papers. The authors apologize to the Editors and readers as well as the authors of the original papers for this unintentional mistake done by the first author.

This chapter has been retracted at the request of the Publisher and Editors due to a violation of Springer’s Publishing Principles as part of the content of the chapter DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_15 has been duplicated from different research papers. The authors apologize to the Editors and readers as well as the authors of the original papers for this unintentional mistake done by the first author.

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Recent Development in the Methods of Studying Microbial Diversity

• Mohd Ikram Ansari &
• Abdul Malik 

1. Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 202002, India

   Mohd Ikram Ansari

2. Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 202002, India

   Abdul Malik

This chapter has been retracted at the request of the Publisher and Editors due to a violation of Springer’s Publishing Principles as part of the content of the chapter DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_2 has been duplicated from different research papers. The authors apologize to the Editors and readers as well as the authors of the original papers for this unintentional mistake done by the first author.

Antibiotic Resistance Gene Pool and Bacterial Adaptation to Xenobiotics in the Environment

• Mohd Ikram Ansari &
• Abdul Malik 

1. Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 202002, India

   Mohd Ikram Ansari & Abdul Malik

This chapter has been retracted at the request of the Publisher and Editors due to a violation of Springer’s Publishing Principles as part of the content of the chapter DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_15 has been duplicated from different research papers. The authors apologize to the Editors and readers as well as the authors of the original papers for this unintentional mistake done by the first author.