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Sonja-Verena Albers1, Ken F Jarrell2

  • 1Molecular Biology of Archaea, Institute of Biology II - Microbiology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.

Trends in Microbiology
|February 18, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
KaiCarchaeaarchaeal flagellumcryo-EMtype IV pili

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