Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota
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Brochier-Armanet, C., Boussau, B., Gribaldo, S., & Forterre, P. (2008). Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 6(3), 245–252.

Authors 4
  1. Céline Brochier-Armanet (first)
  2. Bastien Boussau (additional)
  3. Simonetta Gribaldo (additional)
  4. Patrick Forterre (additional)
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