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Uricase Activity of Isolated Symbionts and the Aposymbiotic Fat Body of a Cockroach

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PIERRE, L. Uricase Activity of Isolated Symbionts and the Aposymbiotic Fat Body of a Cockroach. Nature 201, 54–55 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201054a0

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