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Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven?
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- Authors
- Gray, M. W., & Doolittle, W. F.
- Venue
- Microbiological Reviews
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 1982-01-01
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-42
- ISSN
- 0146-0749 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1917791066
- Cited by
- 531
- References
- 223
- FWCI
- 13.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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