Males vs workers: testing the assumptions of the haploid susceptibility hypothesis in bumblebees

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  2006-04-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00265-006-0192-2
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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