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The metabolic versatility of pseudomonads

  • Biochemistry
  • The Seventh A. J. Kluyver Memorial Lecture Delivered Before the Netherlands Society for Microbiology on November 19th, 1981, at the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Wilrijk, Belgium
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Clarke, P.H. The metabolic versatility of pseudomonads. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48, 105–130 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405197

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