A bit of history.
Reviews of scientific literature began to appear in the 17th century. Journals dedicated to them soon followed, leading eventually to this one, which emerged in the 1930s as Bacteriological Reviews; it adapted to the many changes in our fluid discipline, evolving into the present, much broader Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews.
Ingraham
J L
JL
Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, USA. jingrah@ns.net
Murray
R G
RG
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