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Performance of Bee Colonies Headed by Queens Instrumentally Inseminated with Semen of Drones Who Come from a Single Colony or Many Colonies Cover

Performance of Bee Colonies Headed by Queens Instrumentally Inseminated with Semen of Drones Who Come from a Single Colony or Many Colonies

Journal of Apicultural Science
Volume 58 (2014): Issue 2 (December 2014)
By: Dariusz Gerula,  Paweł Węgrzynowicz,  Beata Panasiuk,  Małgorzata Bieńkowska and  Wojciech Skowronek  
Open Access
|Dec 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2014-0025 | Journal eISSN: 2299-4831 | Journal ISSN: 1643-4439
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Language: English
Page range: 87 - 97
Submitted on: Aug 21, 2014
Accepted on: Nov 12, 2014
Published on: Dec 11, 2014
Published by: Research Institute of Horticulture
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
genetic diversity,
honey yield,
instrumental insemination,
polyandry,
wintering
Related subjects:
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Zoology,
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