The extraordinary honey bee mating strategy and a simple field dissection of the spermatheca

American Bee Journal

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-220

  Cobey, Susan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0037334597     PISSN: 00027626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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