A cell culture model for Nosema ceranae and Nosema apis allows new insights into the life cycle of these important honey bee-pathogenic microsporidia

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 404-413

  Gisder, Sebastian ^a   Mockel, Nadine ^a   Linde, Andreas ^b   Genersch, Elke ^a  

^a Institute for Bee Research   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIA; MOTH; NOSEMA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CELL LINE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSPORIDIA; MOTHS; NOSEMA;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; NOSEMA APIS; NOSEMA CERANAE; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 79551470849     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02346.x     Document Type: Article

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