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Coevolutionary analyses of the relationships between piroplasmids and their hard tick hosts

Huitian Gou1, Guiquan Guan, Aihong Liu

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Grazing Animal Diseases MOA, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science Xujiaping 1, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730046, China.

Ecology and Evolution
|October 9, 2013
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COICoevolutionhard tickpiroplasmid

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