Influence of Pollen Nutrition on Honey Bee Health: Do Pollen Quality and Diversity Matter?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Di Pasquale, Garance ^a,b   Salignon, Marion ^c   Le Conte, Yves ^a,c   Belzunces, Luc P ^a,c   Decourtye, Axel ^a,b   Kretzschmar, André ^a,d   Suchail, Séverine ^e   Brunet, Jean Luc ^a,c   Alaux, Cédric ^a,c  

^a UMT Protection des Abeilles dans l'Environnement   (France)

^b ACTA   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^d INRA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ARGININE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE; TRANSFERRIN; TRYPTOPHAN; VALINE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HEALTH; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOPHARYNX; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; NURSE BEE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; ORGANOGENESIS; PARASITE TOLERANCE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PARAMETERS; POLLEN NUTRITION; PROTEIN CONTENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSFERRIN GENE; VITELLOGENIN GENE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BEES; POLLEN; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84881088332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072016     Document Type: Article

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