Scientific note on mass collection and hatching of honey bee embryos

Apidologie

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 654-656

  Evans, Jay D ^a   Boncristiani Jr , Humberto ^a   Chen, Yanping ^a  

^a USDA ARS Bee Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Germline transformation; Queen rearing; RNA virus

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; HATCHING; HONEYBEE; VIRUS;

APIS MELLIFERA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 77958611176     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido/2010009     Document Type: Article

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