Nutritional ecology of entomophagy in humans and other primates.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Annual Review of Entomology

• Publication date

  2013-01-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100713PMID 23039342
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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