Evolutionary Mechanisms of Microbial Genomes 2012
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1Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 2Laboratory for Cellular Systems Modeling, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan 3Laboratory of Environmental Biochemistry, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 4Gene Expression and Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Room 116, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 5Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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تاریخ انتشار 2012