Acquired Resistance to Saliva Anticoagulants by Prey Previously Fed upon by Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus): Evidence for Immune Response
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- 15 October 2009
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 90 (5) , 1132-1138
Abstract
Ranchers have observed that residual hemorrhage decreases after livestock suffer repeated bites from common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus). We hypoKeywords
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