Predictive markers of honey bee colony collapse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dainat, Benjamin ^a   Evans, Jay D ^b   Chen, Yan Ping ^b   Gauthier, Laurent ^a   Neumann, Peter ^a,c  

^a AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITELLOGENIN;

ARTICLE; COLONY COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HONEYBEE; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; ORGANISM COLONY; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWITZERLAND; VARROA; WINTER; ANIMAL; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; HONEY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; VARROIDAE;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; NOSEMA CERANAE; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; COLONY COLLAPSE; ECOSYSTEM; HONEY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NOSEMA; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; VARROIDAE;

EID: 84863116531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032151     Document Type: Article

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