How clonal are bacteria?

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on May 15, 1993

Authors

J M Smith1, N H Smith, M O'Rourke, B G Spratt

Author Affiliations

1: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom.

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