Topndash;down or bottom–up regulation of intra–host blood–stage malaria: do malaria parasites most resemble the dynamics of prey or predator?
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2203