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All issues Volume 40 / No 6 (November-December 2009) Apidologie, 40 6 (2009) 627-633 References
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Apidologie
Volume 40, Number 6, November-December 2009
Page(s) 627 - 633
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009050
Published online 15 September 2009
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