Pathways to aerobic glycerol catabolism and their regulation

Microbial Conversions of Raw Glycerol

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-18

  Fakas, Stylianos ^a   Makri, Anna ^a   Bellou, Stamatina ^a   Aggelis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

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