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All issues Volume 41 / No 2 (March-April 2010) Apidologie, 41 2 (2010) 203-215 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 2, March-April 2010
Page(s) 203 - 215
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009071
Published online 25 November 2009
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