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All issues Volume 41 / No 1 (January-February 2010) Apidologie, 41 1 (2010) 45-53 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 1, January-February 2010
Page(s) 45 - 53
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009048
Published online 25 August 2009
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