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All issues Volume 38 / No 1 (January-February 2007) Apidologie, 38 1 (2007) 55-66 References
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Apidologie
Volume 38, Number 1, January-February 2007
Page(s) 55 - 66
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2006053
Published online 16 January 2007
References of  Apidologie 38 (2007) 55-66
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