Can cuticular lipids provide sufficient information 55 for within - colony nepotism in wasps ?
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59 Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università di Firenze, Firenze 1 , Italy 60 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield 1 , UK 61 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Rice University, 1 USA 62 Department of Conservation Biology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala 1 , Sweden 63 Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva, Università di Siena, Siena 1 , Italy
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تاریخ انتشار 2004