Managed pollinator CAP coordinated agricultural project-honey bee genetic diversity and breeding- Towards the reintroduction of european germ plasm

American Bee Journal

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-158

  Sheppard, Walter S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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