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Size of blood meals taken by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) (Diptera: Glossinidae) correlates with fat reserves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

P.M.J. Loder*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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*CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8DE, UK.

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