Virulence and polar tube protein genetic diversity of Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) field isolates from Northern and Southern Europe in honeybees (Apis mellifera iberiensis)

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 401-413

  Van der Zee, Romee ^a   Gómez Moracho, Tamara ^b   Pisa, Lennard ^a   Sagastume, Soledad ^b   García Palencia, Pilar ^c   Maside, Xulio ^d,e   Bartolomé, Carolina ^d,e   Martín Hernández, Raquel ^b,f   Higes, Mariano ^b  

^a Nederlands Centrum Bijenonderzoek (NCB)   (Netherlands)

^b Centro Apícola Regional CAR Laboratorio de Patología Apícola Consejería de Agricultura Junta de Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^e Santiago University Clinical Hospital   (Spain)

^f Instituto de Recursos Humanos Para la Ciencia y la Tecnología INCRECYT FEDER Fundación Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Albacete   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NETHERLANDS; NOSEMA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BEES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS; NOSEMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903554014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12133     Document Type: Article

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