An emerging paradigm of colony health: Microbial balance of the honey bee and hive (Apis mellifera)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-444

  Anderson, K E ^a,b   Sheehan, T H ^b   Eckholm, B J ^b   Mott, B M ^a   DeGrandi Hoffman, G ^a  

^a CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended organism; Microbial ecology; Pathogen defense; Social insects; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROCHEMICAL; APICULTURE; COLONY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HONEYBEE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NICHE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SOCIAL INSECT; SUSTAINABILITY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80052568117     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-011-0194-6     Document Type: Review

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