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Cultivation and development of Microphallus pygmaeus (Trematoda: Microphallidae) in fertile chick eggs

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  1. Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, BT37 OQB, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

    S. W. B. Irwin & D. H. Saville

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Irwin, S.W.B., Saville, D.H. Cultivation and development of Microphallus pygmaeus (Trematoda: Microphallidae) in fertile chick eggs. Parasitol Res 74, 396–398 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00539465

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