Impact of insecticidal proteins expressed in transgenic plants on bumblebee microcolonies

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-157

  Babendreier, Dirk ^a   Reichhart, Birgit ^a   Romeis, Jörg ^a   Bigler, Franz ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apidae; Bombus terrestris; Bt toxin; GMO; Hymenoptera; Microcolonies; Risk assessment; Snowdrop lectin; Soybean trypsin inhibitor

Indexed keywords

BEE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOWER VISITING; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITOR; INSECTICIDE; LONGEVITY; PROTEIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUCROSE; SURVIVAL; TOXIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WORKER CASTE;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; GLYCINE MAX; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 38349075734     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00652.x     Document Type: Article

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