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Norwegian honey bees surviving Varroa destructor mite infestations by means of natural selection

BACKGROUND: Managed, feral and wild populations of European honey bee subspecies, Apis mellifera, are currently facing severe colony losses globally. There is consensus that the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, that switched hosts from the Eastern honey bee Apis cerana to the Western honey bee...

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Autores principales: Oddie, Melissa A.Y., Dahle, Bjørn, Neumann, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5659219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29085753
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3956