Genome evolution within the alpha Proteobacteria: why do some bacteria not possess plasmids and others exhibit more than one different chromosome?

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  FEMS Microbiology Reviews

• Publication date

  1998-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1574-6976.1998.TB00370.XPMID 9862123
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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