Sex-Specific Differences in Pathogen Susceptibility in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

Sex-related differences in susceptibility to pathogens are a common phenomenon in animals. In the eusocial Hymenoptera the two female castes, workers and queens, are diploid and males are haploid. The haploid susceptibility hypothesis predicts that haploid males are more susceptible to pathogen infe...

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Autores principales: Retschnig, Gina, Williams, Geoffrey R., Mehmann, Marion M., Yañez, Orlando, de Miranda, Joachim R., Neumann, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085261

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085261

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