The diversity and phylogeny of rickettsia

Parasite Diversity and Diversification: Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 150-181

  Weinert, Lucy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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