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Alessandro Desirò1,2, Alessandra Salvioli3, Paola Bonfante3

  • 1Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Viale Mattioli 25, Turin, 48824, Italy. desiro.alessandro@gmail.com.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|January 22, 2016
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungiBacterial enrichmentCandidatus Glomeribacter gigasporarumEndobacteriaFluorescent in situ hybridizationMollicutes-related endobacteriaReal-time quantitative PCRTransmission electron microscopy

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