Nosema ceranae has been present in Brazil for more than three decades infecting Africanized honey bees

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 250-254

  Teixeira, Erica Weinstein ^a   dos Santos, Lubiane Guimarães ^b   Sattler, Aroni ^c   Message, Dejair ^d   Alves, Maria Luisa Teles Marques Florencio ^a   Martins, Marta Fonseca ^e   Grassi Sella, Marina Lopes ^f   Francoy, Tiago Mauricio ^f  

^a AGÊNCIA PAULISTA DE TECNOLOGIA DOS AGRONEGÓCIOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO SEMI ÁRIDO   (Brazil)

^e EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Africanized honey bees; Microsporidian; Nosema apis; Pathology; PCR

Indexed keywords

APIS; APIS CERANA; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA; APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; NOSEMA; NOSEMA APIS; NOSEMA CERANAE;

AFRICA; AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; COLONY COLLAPSE; DNA SEQUENCE; FORELIMB; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOSEMA; NOSEMA APIS; PATHOLOGY; PCR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES; MICROSPORIDIAN; NOSEMA APIS; PATHOLOGY; PCR;

AFRICA; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEES; COLONY COLLAPSE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSEMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WING;

EID: 84886773233     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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