A theoretical reassessment of microbial maintenance and implications for microbial ecology modeling
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0168-6496
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01389.x