Volume 8, Number 11—November 2002
Dispatch
Genomewide Pattern of Synonymous Nucleotide Substitution in Two Complete Genomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Table 1
Estimatesa of the divergence time of the H37Rv and CDC1551 genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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