Updating the Fungal Infection-mammalian Selection Hypothesis at the End of the Cretaceous Period

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Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2020 Jul 17

PMID 32673359

Citations 10

Authors

Arturo Casadevall

Chris Damman

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