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All issues Volume 34 / No 2 (March-April 2003) Apidologie, 34 2 (2003) 161-170 References
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Apidologie
Volume 34, Number 2, March-April 2003
Page(s) 161 - 170
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2003008

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