Trends in rhizobial evolution and some taxonomic remarks

Evolutionary Biology - Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 301-315

  Martínez Romero, Julio C ^a   Ormeño Orrillo, Ernesto ^a   Rogel, Marco A ^a   López López, Aline ^a   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12340-5_18     Document Type: Chapter

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