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Precise, High-throughput Analysis of Bacterial Growth
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[The determination of the parameter of Bertalanffy's growth differential equations by means of nonlinear internal

J Peil

    Gegenbaurs Morphologisches Jahrbuch
    |January 1, 1979
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