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All issues Volume 33 / No 4 (July-August 2002) Apidologie, 33 4 (2002) 375-388 References
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Apidologie
Volume 33, Number 4, July-August 2002
Page(s) 375 - 388
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2002023

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