Mercury Resistance and Mercuric Reductase Activities and Expression among Chemotrophic Thermophilic Aquificae
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Mercuric reductase genes (merA) and mercury resistance plasmids in High Arctic snow, freshwater and sea-ice brine.
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.01060-12