Bacterial symbionts of Steinernema and Heterorhabditis

Nematology Monographs and Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 735-808

  Koppenhöfer, Heather S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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