Behavior of Heterologous Recombinant Plasmid pCET in Cells of Bacillus anthracis

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-439

  Pomerantsev, A P ^a   Staritsyn, N A ^a  

^a All Union Applied Microbiology Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

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