Physiology and evolution of nitrate acquisition in Prochlorococcus 2
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Cambridge, MA, USA 9 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 10 3 Microbiology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 11 4 Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA 12 5 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA 13 6 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 14 7 Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel 15 8 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 16 9 Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA 17 10 Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 18 19
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تاریخ انتشار 2014