Prospective Large-Scale Field Study Generates Predictive Model Identifying Major Contributors to Colony Losses

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kielmanowicz, Merav Gleit ^a   Inberg, Alex ^a   Lerner, Inbar Maayan ^a   Golani, Yael ^a   Brown, Nicholas ^a   Turner, Catherine Louise ^a   Hayes, Gerald J R ^a   Ballam, Joan M ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOASSAY; DICISTROVIRIDAE; FIELD STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA CERANAE; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; QUANTIGENE ASSAY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; COLONY COLLAPSE; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VARROIDAE; VIRUS DISEASES;

ACARI; APOIDEA; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; NOSEMA CERANAE; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; COLONY COLLAPSE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VARROIDAE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84929485195     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004816     Document Type: Article

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