Genetic, individual, and group facilitation of disease resistance in insect societies

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2009, Pages 405-423

  Wilson Rich, Noah ^a   Spivak, Marla ^b   Fefferman, Nina H ^c   Starks, Philip T ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease susceptibility; Eusociality; Hymenoptera; Invertebrate immunology; Modeling

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 60549083375     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.53.103106.093301     Document Type: Article

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