Triage for the biosphere: The need and rationale for taxonomic inventories and phylogenetic studies of parasites

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-25

  Brooks, Daniel R ^a   Hoberg, Eric P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biosphere; Global Taxonomy InitiatiVe; Inventory; Parasites; Phylogeny; Survey; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033998158     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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