Cultivating microbial dark matter in benzene-degrading methanogenic consortia

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2923-2936

  Luo, Fei ^a   Devine, Cheryl E ^a   Edwards, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84987624172     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13121     Document Type: Article

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