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Striped bodypainting protects against horseflies
Bodypainting is widespread in African, Australian and Papua New Guinean indigenous communities. Many bodypaintings use white or bright yellow/grey/beige stripes on brown skin. Where the majority of people using bodypainting presently live, blood-sucking horseflies are abundant, and they frequently a...
Autores principales: | Horváth, Gábor, Pereszlényi, Ádám, Åkesson, Susanne, Kriska, György |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30800379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181325 |
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