'Everything is everywhere, but, the environment selects'; what did Baas Becking and Beijerinck really say?

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 755-758

  De Wit, Rutger ^a   Bouvier, Thierry ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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ART; ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; WRITING;

ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PORTRAITS; PUBLICATIONS; TERMINOLOGY; WRITING;

EID: 33644845577     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01017.x     Document Type: Letter

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