Three QTL in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. suppress reproduction of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-458

  Behrens, Dieter ^a   Huang, Qiang ^a,b   Geßner, Cornelia ^a,c   Rosenkranz, Peter ^d   Frey, Eva ^d   Locke, Barbara ^e   Moritz, Robin F A ^a,f   Kraus, F B ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Drones; Microsatellites; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 84867540690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.17     Document Type: Article

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