Colonization of abiotic surfaces

EcoSal Plus

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Beloin, Christophe ^a   Da Re, Sandra ^a   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.8.3.1.3     Document Type: Article

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