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Journal of Bacteriology, July 2000, p. 3867-3869, Vol. 182, No. 13
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Decoupling of Genome Size and Sequence Divergence in a Symbiotic Bacterium

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

Received 10 December 1999/Accepted 7 April 2000

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