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    Federico M. Lauro, Michelle A. Allen, David Wilkins, Timothy J. Williams & Ricardo Cavicchioli

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Lauro, F.M., Allen, M.A., Wilkins, D., Williams, T.J., Cavicchioli, R. (2011). Psychrophiles: Genetics, Genomics, Evolution. In: Horikoshi, K. (eds) Extremophiles Handbook. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53898-1_42

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