Hydrocarbons and insects' social physiology

Insect Physiology: New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 19-72

  Provost, E ^a   Blight, O ^b   Tirard, A ^a   Renucci, M ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

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