Complex lipids of a lipolytic and general-fatty-acid-requiring Butyrivibrio sp. isolated from the ovine rumen.
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SUBMITTER: Hazlewood GP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1162247 | biostudies-other | 1980 Nov
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