MEDITERATRI project - assessing the trophic ecology of predatory arthropods in Mediterranean agriculture via DNA metabarcoding diet analyses
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Assessing the utility of metabarcoding for diet analyses of the omnivorous wild pig (Sus scrofa)
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عنوان ژورنال: ARPHA Conference Abstracts
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2603-3925
DOI: 10.3897/aca.2.e38865