Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 397 (6715) , 151-154
- https://doi.org/10.1038/16451
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