Styrene, an unpalatable substrate with complex regulatory networks

Pseudomonas

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 59-87

  Leoni, Livia ^a   Rampioni, Giordano ^a   Zennaro, Elisabetta ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6097-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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