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Fertility costs of cryptic viral infections in a model social insect

Declining insect populations emphasize the importance of understanding the drivers underlying reductions in insect fitness. Here, we investigated viruses as a threat to social insect reproduction, using honey bees as a model species. We report that in two independent surveys (N = 93 and N = 54, resp...

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Autores principales: Chapman, Abigail, Amiri, Esmaeil, Han, Bin, McDermott, Erin, Rueppell, Olav, Tarpy, David R., Foster, Leonard J., McAfee, Alison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9508145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36151143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20330-4