Issue
Parasite
Volume 32, 2025
Special Issue – Ninth International Symposium on Monogenea. Invited Editors: Amit Tripathi, Nirupama Agarwal & Jean-Lou Justine
Article Number 5
Number of page(s) 20
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2024077
Published online 30 January 2025
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