Extinction of a species of land snail due to infection with a microsporidian parasite

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1139-1141

  Cunningham, Andrew A ^a   Daszak, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; PARASITE INFESTATION; SNAIL;

GASTROPODA; PARTULA; PARTULA TURGIDA; PROTOZOA; STEINHAUSIA;

EID: 0031782702     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.97485.x     Document Type: Article

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