A Strong Immune Response in Young Adult Honeybees Masks Their Increased Susceptibility to Infection Compared to Older Bees

Honeybees, Apis mellifera, show age-related division of labor in which young adults perform maintenance (“housekeeping”) tasks inside the colony before switching to outside foraging at approximately 23 days old. Disease resistance is an important feature of honeybee biology, but little is known abou...

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Autores principales: Bull, James C., Ryabov, Eugene V., Prince, Gill, Mead, Andrew, Zhang, Cunjin, Baxter, Laura A., Pell, Judith K., Osborne, Juliet L., Chandler, Dave
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003083

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003083

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