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Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Metagenomics, Non-domesticated Macropodidae, Kangaroo

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Klieve, A. (2012). Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Metagenomics, Non-domesticated Macropodidae, Kangaroo. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_8-3

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