Bacterial predators possess unique membrane lipid structures

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Frederic D Müller1, Sebastian Beck, Eckhard Strauch

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Lipids
|October 11, 2011
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