How queen-like are the tergal glands in workers of Apis mellifera capensis and Apis mellifera scutellata?

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 1, January-Febuary 2000


Page(s)		55 - 66
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000106

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