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A tripartite survey of hyperparasitic fungi associated with ectoparasitic flies on bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in a neotropical cloud forest in Panama

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  • 1. Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia & Current address: Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Science Road, Richmond,
  • 2. Current address: Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Science Road, Richmond, & Department of Animal Ecology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 3. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 4. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, 105 The Green, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
  • 5. Painted Sky Road, Reading, Pennsylvania 19606, USA
  • 6. Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
  • 7. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama & Herbario UCH, Universidad Autónoma de ChiriquÍ, Apartado Postal 0427, David, Panama

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Walker, Melissa J., Dorrestein, Annabel, Camacho, Jasmin J., Meckler, Lauren A., Silas, Kirk A., Hiller, Thomas, Haelewaters, Danny (2018): A tripartite survey of hyperparasitic fungi associated with ectoparasitic flies on bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in a neotropical cloud forest in Panama. Parasite (Paris, France) 25 (19): 1-21, DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2018017, URL: https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018017

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