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TOMASZ, A. Control of the Competent State in Pneumococcus by a Hormone-Like Cell Product: An Example for a New Type of Regulatory Mechanism in Bacteria. Nature 208, 155–159 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208155a0
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