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Short Communications

Identification and molecular characterisation of fifteen tropical isolates of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium

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Pages 490-498 | Received 27 Mar 2019, Accepted 15 Feb 2020, Published online: 26 Feb 2020

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