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All issues Volume 36 / No 3 (July-September 2005) Apidologie, 36 3 (2005) 359-376 References
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Apidologie
Volume 36, Number 3, July-September 2005
Page(s) 359 - 376
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2005023
Published online 07 July 2005
References of Apidologie 36 359-376
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