Behavioral Fever Response of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) to Infection by Entomophthora muscae (Zygomycetes: Entomophthorales)
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0022-2011
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1993.1003