Maternally inherited bacterium causing female bias in the st. petersburg population of adalia bipunctata does not belong to the genus rickettsia

Genetika

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1504-1508

  Zakharov, I A ^a   Hurst, G D D ^a   Chernysheva, N E ^a   Majerus, M E N ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0007871114     PISSN: 00166758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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