Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are more efficient at removing worker brood artificially infested with the parasitic mite Varroa jacobsoni Oudemans than are Italian bees or Italian/Africanized hybrids

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-92

  Guerra Jr , José Carlos Vieira ^a   Gonçalves, Lionel Segui ^a   De Jong, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; HONEYBEE; HYBRID; INFESTATION; MITE; NONHUMAN;

ACARI; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; VARROA; VARROA JACOBSONI;

EID: 0342749393     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572000000100016     Document Type: Article

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