Cultivation and development of Microphallus pygmaeus (Trematoda: Microphallidae) in fertile chick eggs (original) (raw)

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1. Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, BT37 OQB, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
   S. W. B. Irwin & D. H. Saville

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2. D. H. Saville

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Irwin, S.W.B., Saville, D.H. Cultivation and development of Microphallus pygmaeus (Trematoda: Microphallidae) in fertile chick eggs.Parasitol Res 74, 396–398 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00539465

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• Accepted: 30 November 1987
• Issue date: July 1988
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00539465