Temperature and humidity differences between roosts of the fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810), and the refugia of its ectoparasite, Afrocimex constrictus
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K.
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