Microbes are trophic analogs of animals

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2015-11-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1508782112PMID 26598691PMCID PMC4679051
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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