Overcoming Fish Defences: The Virulence Factors of Yersinia ruckeri

Agnieszka Wrobel1, Jack C Leo2,3, Dirk Linke4

  • 1Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway. agnieszka.wrobel@ibv.uio.no.

Genes
|September 14, 2019
PubMed

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