Sex in dictyostelia

Dictyostelids: Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 129-148

  Bloomfield, Gareth ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38487-5_7     Document Type: Chapter

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