Population genomics: How bacterial species form and why they don't exist

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861847839     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.034     Document Type: Short Survey

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