Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research.

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  FEMS Microbiology Reviews

• Publication date

  2018-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/femsre/fuy006PMID 29447350
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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