Genomic characterization of the Yersinia genus.

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Published in Genome Biol on January 04, 2010

Authors

Peter E Chen1, Christopher Cook, Andrew C Stewart, Niranjan Nagarajan, Dan D Sommer, Mihai Pop, Brendan Thomason, Maureen P Kiley Thomason, Shannon Lentz, Nichole Nolan, Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Alexander Sulakvelidze, Alfred Mateczun, Lei Du, Michael E Zwick, Timothy D Read

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1: Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA. peter.chen@med.navy.mil

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