Differential virulence in a multiple-host parasite of bumble bees: Resolving the paradox of parasite survival?

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 941-949

  Rutrecht, Samina T ^a,b   Brown, Mark J F ^a,c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MATING SUCCESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS LUCORUM; NOSEMA; NOSEMA BOMBI;

EID: 66749160220     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17392.x     Document Type: Article

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