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Before proceeding with my main subject, I am tempted to a short discussion of the extraordinary phenomenon of arthropod transmission of pathogenic organisms, which involves a little speculation about their evolutionary history.
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Busvine, J.R. (1993). The Discovery of Unsuspected Dangers. In: Disease Transmission by Insects. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45716-6_1
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