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Editorial
. 2025 Dec:72:101426.
doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2025.101426. Epub 2025 Aug 6.

Editorial overview: Unique biological processes of blood-feeding arthropods (2025)

Joshua B Benoit  1
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Editorial overview: Unique biological processes of blood-feeding arthropods (2025)

Joshua B Benoit. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2025 Dec.
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