Chemically mediated competition and host-pathogen interactions among marine organisms

Handbook of Marine Natural Products

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 823-859

  Slattery, Marc ^a,b   Gochfeld, Deborah J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3834-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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