The differential development of microsporidia infecting worker honey bee (Apis mellifera) at increasing incubation temperature

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 745-748

  Higes, Mariano ^a   García Palencia, Pilar ^b   Botías, Cristina ^a   Meana, Aránzazu ^b   Martín Hernández, Raquel ^a  

^a Junta de Comunidades de Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA APIS; NOSEMA CERANAE;

EID: 78149380711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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