Within-host dynamics of an intestinal pathogen of bumble bees

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 749-761

  Otterstatter, M C ^a   Thomson, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombus; Bumble bees; Crithidia bombi; Pathogen transmission; Within host dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; FLOWER; FORAGING; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CRITHIDIA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INTESTINES;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS IMPATIENS; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751082368     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118200600120X     Document Type: Article

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