Echinostomes: Systematics and life cycles

The Biology of Echinostomes: From the Molecule to the Community

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-34

  Esteban, José Guillermo ^a   Muñoz Antoli, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09577-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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