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Algae communication, conspecific and interspecific: the concepts of phycosphere and algal-bacteria consortia in a photobioreactor (PBR)

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Article: 2148371 | Received 24 Aug 2022, Accepted 12 Nov 2022, Published online: 19 Mar 2023

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