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All issues Volume 41 / No 4 (July-August 2010) Apidologie, 41 4 (2010) 476-487 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 4, July-August 2010
Page(s) 476 - 487
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009083
Published online 14 January 2010
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