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Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations.
Journal of invertebrate pathology - 1 Feb 2012
Cordes Nils, Huang Wei-Fone, Strange James P, Cameron Sydney A, Griswold Terry L, Lozier Jeffrey D, Solter Leellen F
Abstract excerpt
Several bumble bee (Bombus) species in North America have undergone range reductions and rapid declines in relative abundance. Pathogens have been suggested as causal factors, however, baseline data on pathogen distributions in a large number of bumble bee species have not been available to test this hypothesis. In a nationwide survey of the US, nearly 10,000 specimens of 36 bumble bee species collected at 284...
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