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Variable expression of extracellular polysaccharide in the marine bacterium Pseudomonas atlantica is controlled by

D H Bartlett1, M E Wright, M Silverman

  • 1The Agouron Institute, 505 Coast Boulevard South, La Jolla, CA 92037.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|June 1, 1988
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