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All issues Volume 37 / No 3 (May-June 2006) Apidologie, 37 3 (2006) 366-375 References
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Apidologie
Volume 37, Number 3, May-June 2006
Page(s) 366 - 375
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2006001
Published online 23 February 2006
References of Apidologie 37 366-375
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