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Evaluating the Effect of Environmental Chemicals on Honey Bee Development from the Individual to Colony Level
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[The antimutagenic action of apiculture products]

I R Bariliak, G D Berdyshev, A M Dugan

    Tsitologiia I Genetika
    |November 1, 1996
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