Reproductive isolation among species of the genus Apis

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 2, March-April 2000 Taxonomy and Evolutionary biology of the Honeybees


Page(s)		313 - 339
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000125

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