Bee bread increases honeybee haemolymph protein and promote better survival despite of causing higher Nosema ceranae abundance in honeybees

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 396-400

  Basualdo, Marina ^a   Barragán, Sergio ^a   Antúnez, Karina ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOLIS; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSEMA;

ANIMALS; BEES; HEMOLYMPH; NOSEMA; PROPOLIS; PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84903591557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12169     Document Type: Article

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