Genome sequence of the endocellular obligate symbiont of tsetse flies, Wigglesworthia glossinidia

By L. Akman, A. Yamashita, Hidemi Watanabe, K. Oshima, T. Shiba, M. Hattori, S. Aksoy. Nature Genetics, 2002

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