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Cestode fauna of murid and cricetid rodents in Hokkaido, Japan, with assignment of DNA barcodes

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  • 1. Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan E-mail: mizuki_sasaki@asahikawa-med.ac.jp & Equally contributed & Corresponding author
  • 2. Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan & Equally contributed
  • 3. Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan E-mail: mizuki_sasaki@asahikawa-med.ac.jp

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Sasaki, Mizuki, Anders, Jason Lee, Nakao, Minoru (2021): Cestode fauna of murid and cricetid rodents in Hokkaido, Japan, with assignment of DNA barcodes. Species Diversity 26: 255-272, DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.26.255

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