Simplicity and Complexity of Microsporidian Genomes

Overview

Journal Eukaryot Cell

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2004 Dec 14

PMID 15590811

Citations 24

Authors

Patrick J Keeling

Claudio H Slamovits

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