Publisher Correction: A portable epigenetic switch for bistable gene expression in bacteria
David R Olivenza1, Hervé Nicoloff2, María Antonia Sánchez-Romero1
1Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, 41080, Sevilla, Spain.
Scientific Reports
|November 27, 2019
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