Exciting times: The challenge to be a bacterial systematist

Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-21

  Stackebrandt, Erko ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31292-5_1     Document Type: Chapter

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