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            <journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">F1000Research</journal-id>
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            <issn pub-type="epub">2046-1402</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>F1000 Research Limited</publisher-name>
                <publisher-loc>London, UK</publisher-loc>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.12688/f1000research.28852.1</article-id>
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                <article-title>Effect of the solid retention time in the obtention of polyhydroxyalkanoates</article-title>
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                        <p>[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]</p>
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                    <name>
                        <surname>Calero</surname>
                        <given-names>Rolando</given-names>
                    </name>
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                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Funding Acquisition</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Investigation</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Methodology</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Project Administration</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Resources</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Supervision</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Validation</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Visualization</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Writing &#x2013; Original Draft Preparation</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Writing &#x2013; Review &amp; Editing</role>
                    <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8931-9469</uri>
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                <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Mart&#x00ed;nez</surname>
                        <given-names>Manuel</given-names>
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                    <label>1</label>Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingenieria, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Santa Elena, EC240250, Ecuador</aff>
                <aff id="a2">
                    <label>2</label>Centro de Geoqu&#x00ed;mica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 1040, Venezuela</aff>
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                <corresp id="c1">
                    <label>a</label>
                    <email xlink:href="mailto:rcalero@upse.edu.ec">rcalero@upse.edu.ec</email>
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                <fn fn-type="conflict">
                    <p>No competing interests were disclosed.</p>
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            <pub-date pub-type="epub">
                <day>27</day>
                <month>8</month>
                <year>2021</year>
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            <pub-date pub-type="collection">
                <year>2021</year>
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            <volume>10</volume>
            <elocation-id>864</elocation-id>
            <history>
                <date date-type="accepted">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>5</month>
                    <year>2021</year>
                </date>
            </history>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x00a9; 2021 Calero R and Mart&#x00ed;nez M</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
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            <abstract>
                <p>xx</p>
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            <kwd-group kwd-group-type="author">
                <kwd>Acidogenic fermentation</kwd>
                <kwd>volatile fatty acids</kwd>
                <kwd>polyhydroxyalkanoate</kwd>
                <kwd>solids retention time.</kwd>
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                    <funding-source>Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness</funding-source>
                    <award-id>CTQ2013-45581-R</award-id>
                </award-group>
                <funding-statement>This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO; project CTQ2013-45581-R).</funding-statement>
                <funding-statement>
                    <italic>The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.</italic>
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