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Peter J Flynn1,2, Corrie S Moreau2,3

  • 1Committee on Evolutionary Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.

Frontiers in Microbiology
|June 14, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Formicidaecomparative genome biologyendogenous viral elementsmicrobesviral diversity

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