Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health

Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce a large number of offspring, queen health is e...

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Autores principales: Amiri, Esmaeil, Strand, Micheline K., Rueppell, Olav, Tarpy, David R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28481294
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects8020048

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28481294
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects8020048

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