The genus prochlorococcus, phylum cyanobacteria

The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea

Volumn 9783642389542, Issue , 2014, Pages 829-845

  Lindell, Debbie ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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