Taxonomic confusion blurs the debate on cosmopolitanism versus local endemism of free-living protists.

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  2005

• Venue

  Protist

• Publication date

  2005-11-17

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.PROTIS.2005.07.001PMID 16325540
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