The nucleoid: An overview

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Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.2.6     Document Type: Article

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