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Honeybees play a major role in crop pollination, which supports the agricultural economy and international food supply. The colony health of honeybees is threatened by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor, which inflicts physical injury on the hosts and ...
Wenhao Zhang +7 more
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Foraging behavior of major insect pollinators on pumpkin, Cucurbita moschata (Duch.ex Lam) [PDF]
Foraging activity period of different honey bee species on C. moschata (C-1076) flowers at different day hours during August-September (2013) revealed that A. dorsata, A. mellifera, A. cerana and A. florea initiated their activity early in the morning at
Kumar, Yogesh, Lalita, Lalita
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Apis cerana is an Eastern honeybee species distributed throughout Asia and closely related to the Western honeybee species Apis mellifera distributed across all of Africa, Europe and Western Asia, and subdivided into thirty confirmed subspecies ...
Ilyasov Rustem A. +3 more
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The forkhead box (Fox) gene family, one of the most important families of transcription factors, participates in various biological processes. However, Fox genes in Hymenoptera are still poorly known.
Hongyi Nie +6 more
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Open-air-nesting honey bees Apis dorsata and Apis laboriosa differ from the cavity-nesting Apis mellifera and Apis cerana in brood hygiene behaviour [PDF]
The cavity-nesting Apis mellifera and Apis cerana bees detect, uncap, and remove diseased brood. The hygiene behaviour of open-air-nesting bees Apis dorsata and Apis laboriosa was investigated in India and Nepal. Sealed A.
Reddy, C.C., Wilde, J., Woyke, J.
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Novel diagnostic tools for Asian (Apis cerana) and European (Apis mellifera) honey authentication [PDF]
Honey can be produced by different species of honeybees, with two being of economic importance due to their use in apiculture, namely Apis mellifera (known as European honeybee) and Apis cerana (known as Asian honeybee).
Amaral, Joana S. +7 more
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The Economic Value of the Pollination Service, a Review Across Scales [PDF]
Pollination is an ecosystem service that is essential to support the production of a wide range of crops. The service is increasingly under threat, as a consequence of among others habitat loss of pollinators and increasing use of pesticides. In order to
Hein, L.G.
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Ecology, Behaviour and Control of Apis cerana with a Focus on Relevance to the Australian Incursion
Apis cerana Fabricius is endemic to most of Asia, where it has been used for honey production and pollination services for thousands of years. Since the 1980s, A.
Anna H. Koetz
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Honey bee Apis cerana is widely distributed in Asia and the Indonesian archipelago, including Sumatra. We studied the molecular variations of A. cerana using cytochrome c oxidase subunits 1 and 2 genes (cox1 and cox2) and the cox1/cox2 intergenic ...
Juniarto Gautama Simanjuntak +12 more
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