Phylum Amoebozoa

Fish Diseases and Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-15

  Zilberg, Dina ^a   Munday, Barry L ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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