Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness

Virology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rortais, Agnès ^a   Tentcheva, Diana ^b   Papachristoforou, Alexandros ^c   Gauthier, Laurent ^b   Arnold, Gérard ^a   Colin, Marc Edouard ^b   Bergoin, Max ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; HONEYBEE; INSECT VIRUS; KAKUGO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; VIRUS GENOME;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; INSECT VIRUSES; RNA VIRUSES; WING;

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA CYPRIA; CYPRIA; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; KAKUGO VIRUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 33748501707     PISSN: 1743422X     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-3-61     Document Type: Article

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