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How We Do, Don’t and Should Look at Bacteria and Bacteriology

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The Prokaryotes

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To try to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.

(Daniel Boorstein)

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Woese, C.R. (2006). How We Do, Don’t and Should Look at Bacteria and Bacteriology. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30741-9_1

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