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All issues Volume 41 / No 1 (January-February 2010) Apidologie, 41 1 (2010) 116-126 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 1, January-February 2010
Page(s) 116 - 126
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009061
Published online 16 November 2009
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