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Morphological and molecular characterization of adult hairworms (Phylum Nematomorpha) from Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and documentation of their non-adult stages and hosts
- 1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, U.S.A. Email: canaya4@unl.edu
- 2. Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 1401 Presque Isle Avenue, Marquette, MI 49855, U.S.A. kgalbrea@nmu.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-0833
- 3. Department of Integrative Biology, 501 Life Sciences West, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, U.S.A. bolek@okstate.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4661-146X
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Anaya, Christina, Galbreath, Kurt E., Bolek, Matthew G. (2021): Morphological and molecular characterization of adult hairworms (Phylum Nematomorpha) from Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and documentation of their non-adult stages and hosts. Zootaxa 4927 (2): 234-256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.2.4
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