South American native bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) infected by Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia), an emerging pathogen of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-135

  Plischuk, Santiago ^a   Martín Hernández, Raquel ^b   Prieto, Lourdes ^c   Lucía, Mariano ^d   Botías, Cristina ^b   Meana, Aránzazu ^e   Abrahamovich, Alberto H ^d   Lange, Carlos ^a,f   Higes, Mariano ^b  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLÓGICOS Y DE VECTORES CEPAVE   (Argentina)

^b JCCM   (Spain)

^c DNA Laboratory   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS ATRATUS; BOMBUS BELLICOSUS; BOMBUS MORIO; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE;

EID: 70350572516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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