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Head geometric morphometrics of two Chagas disease vectors from Venezuela

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  • 1. Escuela de Bioanalisis, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela
  • 2. Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM, km7 vía Muyuna, Ecuador & Centro de Estudios en Zoología Aplicada. Facultad Experimental de Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela
  • 3. Centro de Estudios de Enfermedades Endémicas y Salud Ambiental. Instituto de Alto Estudios "Dr. Arnoldo Gabladon", Venezuela & Carrera de Cs. Biológicas y Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador Correspondence author, E-mail: aysoto@uce.edu.ec

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Oropeza, Ana María, Fernández, Carlos Arturo Perri, Liria, Jonathan, Soto-Vivas, Ana (2017): Head geometric morphometrics of two Chagas disease vectors from Venezuela. Zoological Systematics 42 (1): 65-70, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201706

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