Evaluation of large-scale dissemination of Nosema ceranae spores by European bee-eaters Merops apiaster

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-53

  Valera, F ^a   Martin Hernandez R ^b   Higes, M ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b Centro Apicola Regional   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MEROPS APIASTER; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; NOSEMA; NOSEMA APIS; NOSEMA BOMBI; NOSEMA CERANAE;

EID: 78650797440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00186.x     Document Type: Article

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