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Social interactions as an ecological constraint in a eusocial insect

✍ Scribed by Charles W. Gunnels IV; Aleksandr Dubrovskiy; Arián Avalos


Book ID
113451358
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
416 KB
Volume
75
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-3472

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