A metagenomic survey of microbes in honey bee colony collapse disorder

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5848, 2007, Pages 283-287

  Cox Foster, Diana L ^a   Conlan, Sean ^b   Holmes, Edward C ^a,c   Palacios, Gustavo ^b   Evans, Jay D ^d   Moran, Nancy A ^e   Quan, Phenix Lan ^b   Briese, Thomas ^b   Hornig, Mady ^b   Geiser, David M ^a   Martinson, Vince ^f   VanEngelsdorp, Dennis ^a,g   Kalkstein, Abby L ^a   Drysdale, Andrew ^b   Hui, Jeffrey ^b   Zhai, Junhui ^b   Cui, Liwang ^a   Hutchison, Stephen K ^h   Simons, Jan Fredrik ^h   Egholm, Michael ^h   Pettis, Jeffery S ^d   Lipkin, W Ian ^b   more..

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g Bureau of Plant Industry   (United States)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMICS; HONEYBEE; IRRADIATION; VIRUS; WORKER CASTE;

ARTICLE; GENOMICS; HONEYBEE; INFECTION; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; PARALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEES; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, RRNA; GENOMICS; INSECT VIRUSES; NOSEMA; PHYLOGENY; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 35348853758     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146498     Document Type: Article

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