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All issues Volume 41 / No 1 (January-February 2010) Apidologie, 41 1 (2010) 54-61 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 1, January-February 2010
Page(s) 54 - 61
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009047
Published online 15 September 2009
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