Caution on the assessment of intestinal parasitic load in studying parasite-mediated sexual selection: the case of Blackbirds coccidiosis.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  International Journal of Parasitology

• Publication date

  2009-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.11.005PMID 19100267
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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