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All issues Volume 37 / No 6 (November-December 2006) Apidologie, 37 6 (2006) 653-664 References
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Apidologie
Volume 37, Number 6, November-December 2006
Page(s) 653 - 664
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2006046
Published online 29 November 2006
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