Morgan Jackson - The Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification; Putting the public back into publication

Putting the Public back in Publication Morgan D. Jackson Stephen A. Marshall University of Guelph Insect Systematics Lab

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Calosphen sp. Det. S.A. Marshall, 2011

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