Symbiotic associations between ciliates and prokaryotes

The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 427-463

  Schweikert, Michael ^a   Fujishima, Masahiro ^b   Görtz, Hans Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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