Similarity between the Myxococcus xanthus and Stigmatella aurantiaca reverse transcriptase genes associated with multicopy, single-stranded DNA
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.7.2384-2387.1992