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Helminth communities from amphibians inhabiting agroecosystems in the Pampean Region (Argentina)

  • 1. División Zoología de Invertebrados, Museo de La Plata, UNLP, Paseo del Bosque s/no -B1900FWA La Plata, & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
  • 2. División Zoología de Invertebrados, Museo de La Plata, UNLP, Paseo del Bosque s/no -B1900FWA La Plata, & Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC)
  • 3. Conservación de Anfibios en Agroecosistemas (COANA) * Corresponding autor: rdraghi@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
  • 4. Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires. GEBA. Ciudad & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

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Draghi, Regina, Drago, Fabiana B., Saibene, Pablo E., Agostini, M. Gabriela (2020): Helminth communities from amphibians inhabiting agroecosystems in the Pampean Region (Argentina). Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (2): 261-274, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0020

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