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An International Journal on Fungal Biology
Volume 2, 2011 - Issue 3: Fungal Biology in the Age of Genomics
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Invited Article

Fueling the future with fungal genomics

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Pages 192-209 | Received 07 Apr 2011, Accepted 19 Apr 2011, Published online: 25 Jul 2011

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