Chapter 7 Harland Goff Wood: An American biochemist

Comprehensive Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue C, 1997, Pages 333-382

  Singleton Jr , Rivers ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0069-8032(97)40010-4     Document Type: Article

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