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The innate immune and systemic response in honey bees to a bacterial pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae

BACKGROUND: There is a major paradox in our understanding of honey bee immunity: the high population density in a bee colony implies a high rate of disease transmission among individuals, yet bees are predicted to express only two-thirds as many immunity genes as solitary insects, e.g., mosquito or...

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Autores principales: Chan, Queenie WT, Melathopoulos, Andony P, Pernal, Stephen F, Foster, Leonard J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19695106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-387