Mollicutes associated with arthropods and plants

Insect Symbiosis

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-118

  Ammar, El Desouky ^a,b   Hogenhout, Saskia A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420005936     Document Type: Chapter

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