Pollen quality of fresh and 1-year-old single pollen diets for worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 3, May-june 2000


Page(s)		387 - 409
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000130

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