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All issues Volume 34 / No 4 (July-August 2003) Apidologie, 34 4 (2003) 399-408 References
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Apidologie
Volume 34, Number 4, July-August 2003
Page(s) 399 - 408
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2003038

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