Structure and evolution of the thermus thermophilus ribosome

Thermophiles: Biology and Technology at High Temperatures

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 291-308

  Gregory, Steven T ^a   Dahlberg, Albert E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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