Mobilisable genetic elements from the clostridia

Bacterial Integrative Mobile Genetic Elements

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 120-134

  Adams, Vicki ^a   Johanesen, Priscilla A ^a   Rood, Julian I ^a   Lyras, Dena ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1201/9780367813925-7     Document Type: Chapter

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