Distribution, diversity and evolution of the bacterial mercury resistance (mer) operon.

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Published in FEMS Microbiol Rev on April 01, 1997

Authors

A M Osborn1, K D Bruce, P Strike, D A Ritchie

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1: School of Biological Sciences, Donnan Laboratories, University of Liverpool, UK.

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