Taxonomic significance of morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics and phylogeny in Gram-positive bacteria

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Yokota, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 0002699305     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.14.25     Document Type: Article

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