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All issues Volume 41 / No 5 (September-October 2010) Apidologie, 41 5 (2010) 579-588 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 5, September-October 2010
Page(s) 579 - 588
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2010042
Published online 29 July 2010
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