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Siefert, J. (2004). The phylogeny of bacterial shape. In: Vicente, M., Tamames, J., Valencia, A., Mingorance, J. (eds) Molecules in Time and Space. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48579-6_1
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