Microparasites of three species of shrews from Finnish Lapland

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-41

  Laakkonen, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PARASITE; INSECTIVORE; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

FINLAND;

BARTONELLA; SOREX ARANEUS; SOREX CAECUTIENS; SOREX MINUTUS;

EID: 0034121631     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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