Honey Bee Tracheal Mite Resistance: Are Resistant Stocks Developing and Can They Be Maintained?

American Bee Journal

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 738-741

  Cobey, Susan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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