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Reply to the Comment by Littlechild and Isupov
Andrew Willetts1, David Kelly2
1College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK. andrewj.willetts@btconnect.com.
Microorganisms
|September 8, 2017
Abstract:
I thank Drs. Littlechild and Isupov for their recent comments, which are considered below. Before addressing these specifically, their correspondence raises two more general issues which require initial clarification.[...].
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