Effect of experimental Diphyllobothrium dendriticum infection on the blood leucocyte pattern of brown trout at two temperature levels

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-386

  Rahkonen, Riitta ^a   Pasternack, Marja ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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