Honey bee colonies act as reservoirs for two Spiroplasma facultative symbionts and incur complex, multiyear infection dynamics

MicrobiologyOpen

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 341-355

  Schwarz, Ryan S ^a   Teixeira, Érica Weinstein ^b   Tauber, James P ^a   Birke, Juliane M ^a   Martins, Marta Fonseca ^c   Fonseca, Isabela ^c   Evans, Jay D ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b AGÊNCIA PAULISTA DE TECNOLOGIA DOS AGRONEGÓCIOS   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Flower microbe communities; Host parasite interaction; Microbial prevalence; Spiroplasma; Symbiont; Temporal survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA APIS; SPIROPLASMA MELLIFERUM; SPRING; SYMBIONT; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL LOAD; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BEES; BRAZIL; SEASONS; SPIROPLASMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902207975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.172     Document Type: Article

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