Geographic variation in the growth of domesticated honey bee stocks: Disease or economics?

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 464-466

  Aizen, Marcelo A ^a   Harder, Lawrence D ^b  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Disease; Geographic variation; Growth; Honey production; Honey bee stocks

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 77951973071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.6.9258     Document Type: Article

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