Socialized medicine: Individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 103, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Evans, Jay D ^a   Spivak, Marla ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chalkbrood; Colony collapse disorder; Dicistroviridae; Foulbrood; Hygienic behavior; Innate immunity; Pollinator; Social immunity; Varroa mites

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APICULTURE; ARTICLE; BEE; DICISTROVIRIDAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MITE INFESTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEEKEEPING; BEES; DICISTROVIRIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MITE INFESTATIONS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; DICISTROVIRIDAE; VARROA;

EID: 73749086183     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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