Interactions between Nosema microspores and a neonicotinoid weaken honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 774-782

  Alaux, Cédric ^a   Brunet, fr Jean Luc ^a   Dussaubat, Claudia ^a   Mondet, Fanny ^a   Tchamitchan, Sylvie ^a   Cousin, Marianne ^a   Brillard, Julien ^b   Baldy, Aurelie ^a   Belzunces, Luc P ^a   Le Conte, Yves ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^b UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIDACLOPRID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NITRO DERIVATIVE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MORTALITY; NOSEMA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; TOXICITY; VETERINARY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; IMMUNITY; INSECTICIDES; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; NOSEMA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA;

EID: 77950675074     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02123.x     Document Type: Article

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