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Heuristic Mining of Hierarchical Genotypes and Accessory Genome Loci in Bacterial Populations
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[Concept of a bacterial species and the evolution of the prokaryotic genome]

L A Riapis

    Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
    |December 14, 2006
    PubMed

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