Recent excitement about the Archaea

BioScience

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 530-541

  Jarrell, Ken F ^a   Bayley, Douglas P ^b   Correia, Jason D ^a   Thomas, Nikhil A ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0032991988     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313474     Document Type: Review

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