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  1. Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Robert K. Poole

  2. School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    Mark Shepherd

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Poole, R.K., Shepherd, M. (2018). Bacterial Globins. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_34-1

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