Conservation Challenges to Preventing Primate Extinction
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Bruce Rothschild1* and Virginia L. Naples2 1Department of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA and Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 15273, USA 2Departmentof Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA *Corresponding author: Bruce Rothschild, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, Tel: 785-615-1523; E-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2015