Host adaptations reduce the reproductive success of varroa destructor in two distinct european honey bee populations

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1144-1150

  Locke, Barbara ^a   Le Conte, Yves ^b   Crauser, Didier ^b   Fries, Ingemar ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptations; Apis mellifera; Coevolution; Host parasite interactions; Resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872219409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.248     Document Type: Article

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