Snake fungal disease: an emerging threat to wild snakes

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-12-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2015.0457PMID 28080983PMCID PMC5095536
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