Molecular phylogenetic profiling of prokaryotic communities in guts of termites with different feeding habits
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0168-6496,1574-6941
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00785.x