Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade of Entomoplasmatales Bacteria

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

• Publication date

  2010-11-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/AEM.01896-10PMID 21075876PMCID PMC3019723
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