Diversity of tardigrada

Biodiversity in Agricultural Production Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 237-248

  Seki, Kunihiro ^a   Horikawa, Daiki D ^a  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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