Clinical signs of deformed wing virus infection are predictive markers for honey bee colony losses

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 278-280

  Dainat, Benjamin ^a,b   Neumann, Peter ^a,c  

^a AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colony losses; Deformed wing virus; Predictive marker; Varroa destructor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; COLONY COLLAPSE; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOLOGY; RISK; VARROIDAE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BEES; COLONY COLLAPSE; ODDS RATIO; VARROIDAE; WING;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 84873033002     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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