Three-dimensional Image Reconstructions of the Contractile Tail of T4 Bacteriophage

Overview

Journal J Mol Biol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Microbiology
Molecular Biology

Date 1975 Nov 25

PMID 1206701

Citations 21

Authors

L A Amos

A Klug

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