Bacterial species may exist, metagenomics reveal.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Environmental Microbiology

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02668.xPMID 22151572
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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