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UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase
Article first published online: 23 MAR 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02203.x
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Osburne, M. S., Holmbeck, B. M., Frias-Lopez, J., Steen, R., Huang, K., Kelly, L., Coe, A., Waraska, K., Gagne, A. and Chisholm, S. W. (2010), UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase. Environmental Microbiology, 12: 1978–1988. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02203.x
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- Issue published online: 5 JUL 2010
- Article first published online: 23 MAR 2010
- Received 14 August, 2009; accepted 28 January, 2010.
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