Effector variation at tandem gene arrays in tissue-dwelling coccidia: who needs antigenic variation anyway?
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Microbiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1369-5274
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2018.09.001