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Apidologie

Vol. 40 No. 5 (September-October 2009)

Editorial

• Acknowledgements to Christiane Courant     p. 515
  The Editorial Board of Apidologie
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• Genome size estimation of three stingless bee species (Hymenoptera, Meliponinae) by flow cytometry     p. 517
  Denilce Meneses Lopes, Carlos Roberto de Carvalho, Wellington Ronildo Clarindo, Milene Miranda Praça and Mara Garcia Tavares
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• Differential susceptibility across honey bee colonies in larval chalkbrood resistance     p. 524
  Annette Bruun Jensen, Bo Vest Pedersen and Jørgen Eilenberg
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• Alternative control of Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) with lime and diatomaceous earth     p. 535
  Sven Buchholz, Katharina Merkel, Sebastian Spiewok, Jeff S. Pettis, Michael Duncan, Robert Spooner-Hart, Christian Ulrichs, Wolfgang Ritter and P. Neumann
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• Intraspecific variation in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii assessed with PCR-RFLP of the ITS1 ribosomal DNA     p. 549
  William de Jesús May-Itzá, José Javier Guadalupe Quezada-Euán, Eunice Enriquez and Pilar De La Rúa
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• Honey bee (Apis mellifera) sperm competition in vitro – two are no less viable than one     p. 556
  Sharoni Shafir, Liz Kabanoff, Michael Duncan and Benjamin P. Oldroyd
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• A scientific note on E--ocimene, a new volatile primer pheromone that inhibits worker ovary development in honey bees     p. 562
  Alban Maisonnasse, Jean-Christophe Lenoir, Guy Costagliola, Dominique Beslay, Fanny Choteau, Didier Crauser, Jean-Marc Becard, Erika Plettner and Yves Le Conte
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• Visible and near-infrared spectroscopy detects queen honey bee insemination     p. 565
  Thomas C. Webster, Floyd E. Dowell, Elizabeth B. Maghirang and Etta M. Thacker
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• Molecular characterization of Turkish honey bee populations (Apis mellifera) inferred from mitochondrial DNA RFLP and sequence results     p. 570
  Fulya Özdïl, Mehmet Ali Yildiz and H. Glenn Hall
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• A new device for continuous temperature measurement in brood cells of honeybees (Apis mellifera)     p. 577
  Matthias A. Becher and Robin F.A. Moritz
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• The role of fatty acids in the mechanical properties of beeswax     p. 585
  Robert Buchwald, Michael D. Breed, Louis Bjostad, Bruce E. Hibbard and Alan R. Greenberg
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