How natural infection by Nosema ceranae causes honeybee colony collapse

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2659-2669

  Higes, Mariano ^a   Martín Hernández, Raquel ^a   Botías, Cristina ^a   Bailón, Encarna Garrido ^a   González Porto, Amelia V ^a   Barrios, Laura ^b   Del Nozal, M Jesús ^c   Bernal, José L ^c   Jiménez, Juan J ^c   Palencia, Pilar García ^d   Meana, Aránzazu ^d  

^a JCCM   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; FUMAGILLIN; SESQUITERPENE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSEMA; PATHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BEES; CYCLOHEXANES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSEMA; SESQUITERPENES;

APIS CERANA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE;

EID: 51649119280     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01687.x     Document Type: Article

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