Metabolic diversity in the microbial world: Relevance to exobiology

Micro-Organisms and Earth Systems - Advances in Geomicrobiology: Published for the Society for General Microbiology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 151-172

  Nealson, Kenneth H ^a   Popa, Radu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511754852.009     Document Type: Chapter

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