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[Features of phospholipid composition of marine proteobacteria of Pseudoalteromonas species]

G M Frolova1, V V Kurilenko, E P Ivanova

  • 1Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.

Mikrobiologiia
|September 29, 2000
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