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Ahmad, S., Soanes, D., Barooah, M., Talbot, N. (2006). Investigating the Evolution of Fungal Virulence by Functional Genomics. In: Brown, A.J. (eds) Fungal Genomics. The Mycota, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30809-1_3

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