Enteromyxum species

Fish Parasites: Pathobiology and Protection

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 163-176

  Sitjà Bobadilla, Ariadna ^a   Palenzuela, Oswaldo ^a  

^a CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

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