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Impact of the Phoretic Phase on Reproduction and Damage Caused by Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman) to Its Host, the European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.)

Varroa destructor is a parasitic mite of the honeybee that causes thousands of colony losses worldwide. The parasite cycle is composed of a phoretic and a reproductive phase. During the former, mites stay on adult bees, mostly on nurses, to feed on hemolymph. During the latter, the parasites enter b...

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Autores principales: Piou, Vincent, Tabart, Jérémy, Urrutia, Virginie, Hemptinne, Jean-Louis, Vétillard, Angélique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27096154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153482

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