Identification, characterisation and expression analysis of natural killer receptor genes in Chlamydia pecorum infected koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Genomics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2164
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2035-x