The ecology of host-parasite interactions in aquatic insects

Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 55-80

  Kohler, Steven L ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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