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Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants

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    Zhongtang Yu

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Yu, Z., Forster, R.J. (2005). Nucleic acid extraction, oligonucleotide probes and PCR methods. In: Makkar, H.P., McSweeney, C.S. (eds) Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3791-0_7

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