Varroa-tolerant Italian honey bees introduced from Brazil were not moreefficient in defending themselves against the mite Varroa destructor thanCarniolan bees in Germany

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-158

  Correa Marques M H ^a   De Jong, D ^a   Rosenkranz, P ^b   Goncalves L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera carnica; Apis mellifera ligustica; Host parasite relationship; Natural selection; Varroa jacobsoni

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HONEYBEE; INFESTATION; ITALY; LEG; MITE; MITE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PEST RESISTANCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; BEE; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PARASITOLOGY;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA CARNICA; APIS MELLIFERA LIGUSTICA; APOIDEA; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; VARROA JACOBSONI;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GERMANY; ITALY; MITES;

EID: 3242745250     PISSN: 16765680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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