What are symbiotic bacteria doing in the ovaria of Xiphinema americanum-group species?

Nematologica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-326

  Coomans, A ^a   Willems, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); XIPHINEMA AMERICANUM;

EID: 0031878742     PISSN: 00282596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/005425998X00080     Document Type: Article

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