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Trading molecules and tracking targets in symbiotic interactions

Eric W Schmidt1

  • 1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, 30 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. ews1@utah.edu

Nature Chemical Biology
|July 22, 2008
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