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Natural Product Research
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Volume 22, 2008 - Issue 17
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Microbial transformation of testosterone by Rhizopus stolonifer and Fusarium lini

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Pages 1498-1509 | Received 27 Aug 2007, Accepted 31 Dec 2007, Published online: 02 Dec 2008

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