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All issues Volume 41 / No 6 (November-December 2010) Apidologie, 41 6 (2010) 657-666 References
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Apidologie
Volume 41, Number 6, November-December 2010
Page(s) 657 - 666
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2010038
Published online 14 July 2010
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