Epidemiology and genetic analysis of Oestrus ovis from slaughtered sheep in Sulaymaniyah province, Iraq

Epidemiology and genetic analysis of Oestrus ovis from slaughtered sheep in Sulaymaniyah province, Iraq

Journal of Veterinary Research

Volume 69 (2025): Issue 1 (March 2025)

By:

Aram Ahmad Mohammed

and Taib Ahmed Hama Soor

Open Access

|Mar 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2025-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2450-8608

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Language: English

Page range: 51 - 58

Submitted on: Sep 29, 2024

Accepted on: Mar 14, 2025

Published on: Mar 25, 2025

Published by: National Veterinary Research Institute in Pulawy

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Keywords:

oestrosis,

gene,

sheep,

Related subjects:

Microbiology and virology,

Life sciences, other,

Medicine,

Veterinary medicine

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