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Why prokaryotes have pangenomes
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Metadata
- Authors
- McInerney, J. O., McNally, A., & O'Connell, M. J.
- Venue
- Nature Microbiology
- Published
- 2017-03-28
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 17040-17040
- ISSN
- 2058-5276 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2602439962
- Cited by
- 420
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 24.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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