Inferences of evolutionary and ecological events that influenced the population structure of Plebeia remota, a stingless bee from Brazil

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 41, Number 2, March-April 2010


Page(s)		216 - 224
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009079
Published online		03 December 2009

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