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Reproductive conflict in honey bees: a stalemate of worker egg-laying and policing

✍ Scribed by P. Kirk Visscher

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 245 KB
Volume: 39
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-5443
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050286

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