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Conjugative Mating Assays for Sequence-specific Analysis of Transfer Proteins Involved in Bacterial Conjugation
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Conjugative Mating Assays for Sequence-specific Analysis of Transfer Proteins Involved in Bacterial Conjugation

Published on: January 4, 2017

[Oscillating mechanism of chromosome conjugation]

E F Kazantsev

    Biofizika
    |November 1, 1977
    PubMed

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