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Multi-level selection for hygienic behaviour in honeybees [PDF]
Heredity, 2009 Disease is one of the main factors driving both natural and artificial selection. It is a particularly important and increasing threat to the managed honeybee colonies, which are vital in crop pollination. Artificial selection for disease-resistant honeybee genotypes has previously only been carried out at the colony-level, that is, by using queens or ...
Pérez-Sato, Juan-Antonio +4 more
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Hygienic Behaviour of Honeybee Colonies with Different Levels of Polyandry and Genotypic Composition
Journal of Apicultural Science, 2015 Honey bee queens were inseminated with diluted, homogenised semen collected from a few dozen drones. This procedure was carried out to increase the diversity of the queens’ offspring, which is in comparison to the offspring of queens inseminated with ...
Gerula Dariusz +4 more
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Individual precocity, temporal persistence, and task-specialization of hygienic bees from selected colonies of Apis mellifera [PDF]
Journal of Apicultural Science, 2016 Hygienic behaviour is a complex trait that gives Apis mellifera L. resistance against brood diseases. Variability in the expression of hygienic behaviour is evidenced at the colony-level and is explained by the proportion and propensity of individual ...
Scannapieco Alejandra C. +6 more
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Hygienic behaviour in honey bees [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis focuses on hygienic behaviour in honey bees. In beekeeping, brood diseases incur heavy economical and biological costs and are no longer effectively treated with chemicals. Previous research has shown how hygienic behaviour, a trait expressed by c.
Gianluigi Bigio (298444)
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Hygienic food handling behaviours. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Appetite, 2009 It is estimated that 5.4 million Australians get sick annually from eating contaminated food and that up to 20% of this illness results from food handling behaviour. A study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) including past behaviour in predicting safe food handling intention and behaviour.
Mullan, Barbara, Wong, C.
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Investigating the Effect of Brand Credibility on Customer Loyalty and Behaviour in Hygienic Products [PDF]
مدیریت بازرگانی, 2012 The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the effect of commercial brands on customers’ loyalty and behavior to hygienic products. Here a commercial brand is under assessment about its credibility among consumers in relation to customers’ loyalty ...
Amirhossein Amirkhani Amirkhani +3 more
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‘Kweekplaatsen van gezondheid’. Vakantiekolonies en de medicalisering van het kinderwelzijn [PDF]
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2011 Hygienic Re-Education: Health Colonies and the Medicalization of Child Welfare In the Netherlands between c. 1880 and 1970, large numbers of working-class children were subjected to a penetrating kind of hygienic re-education in ‘health colonies’.
N. Bakker
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A simple index to measure hygiene behaviours [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006 Spot checks are becoming a popular method to assess hygiene behaviours; however, little is known about their repeatability or predictability. We evaluated the within-household repeatability of hygiene indices created from spot checks and their ability to predict incidence of diarrhoea in young Guatemalan children.We observed hygiene behaviours in 588 ...
Amy L, Webb +5 more
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Animals, 2022 The efficiency of the hygienic behaviour in bee colonies towards dead brood was assessed in small-cell combs (SMCombs) and in standard-cell combs (STCombs). Each colony had both types of combs in the nest on a permanent basis.
Piotr Dziechciarz +2 more
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Acta Veterinaria, 2022 The hygienic behavior in honey bees is a complex polygenic trait that serves as a natural defense mechanism against bacterial and fungal brood diseases and Varroa destructor mites infesting brood cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of
Stanimirović Zoran +6 more
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