Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 662-667

  Cameron, Sydney A ^a   Lozier, Jeffrey D ^a   Strange, James P ^b   Koch, Jonathan B ^b   Cordes, Nils ^a,d   Solter, Leellen F ^c   Griswold, Terry L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOMBUS AFFINIS; BOMBUS BIFARIUS; BOMBUS BIMACULATUS; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; BOMBUS OCCIDENTALIS; BOMBUS PENSYLVANICUS; BOMBUS TERRICOLA; BOMBUS VOSNESENSKII; BUMBLEBEE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT GENETICS; MICROSPORIDIA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; NOSEMA; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BOMBUS (GENUS);

EID: 79551676417     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014743108     Document Type: Article

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