Plasmid content and distribution in the toxic cyanobacterial genus Microcystis Kutzing ex Lemmermann (Cyanobacteria: Chroococcales)

Phycologia

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 6-11

  Bolch, C J S ^a,b   Blackburn, S I ^b   Jones, G J ^b   Orr, P T ^b   Grewe, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 0031433621     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-36-1-6.1     Document Type: Article

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