The cost of promiscuity: Sexual transmission of Nosema microsporidian parasites in polyandrous honey bees

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Roberts, K E ^a   Evison, S E F ^b   Baer, B ^c   Hughes, W O H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BEE; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSEMA; OVARY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; INTESTINES; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSEMA; OVARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84934300948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10982     Document Type: Article

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