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Assessing Chemical Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Sunflower Pollen on a Gut Pathogen in Bumble Bees

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Asteraceae Paradox: Chemical and Mechanical Protection of Taraxacum Pollen

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Genus-wide characterization of bumblebee genomes provides insights into their evolution and variation in ecological and behavioral traits

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Crithidia bombi can infect two solitary bee species while host survivorship depends on diet

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Pollen from multiple sunflower cultivars and species reduces a common bumblebee gut pathogen

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High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees

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(2018) Blair K. Mockler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Medicinal value of sunflower pollen against bee pathogens

(2018) Jonathan J. Giacomini et al.   Scientific Reports

How do sunflower pollen mixtures affect survival of queenless microcolonies of bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)?

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Bumble bee (Bombus) distribution and diversity in Vermont, USA: a century of change

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Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences

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Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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Molecular tools and bumble bees: revealing hidden details of ecology and evolution in a model system

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Species differences in bumblebee immune response predict developmental success of a parasitoid fly

(2015) Staige E. Davis et al.   OECOLOGIA

Insights into mammalian biology from the wild house mouse Mus musculus

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Variation in gut microbial communities and its association with pathogen infection in wild bumble bees (Bombus)

(2014) Daniel P Cariveau et al.   ISME Journal

Qualitatively different immune response of the bumblebee host, Bombus terrestris, to infection by different genotypes of the trypanosome gut parasite, Crithidia bombi

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Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory

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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

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Chemical composition of the ‘low quality’ pollen of sunflower (Helianthus annuus, Asteraceae)

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Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

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Characterization of Chemical Composition of Bee Pollen in China

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Integrating nutrition and immunology: A new frontier

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Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

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Molecular Divergence Defines Two Distinct Lineages of Crithidia bombi (Trypanosomatidae), Parasites of Bumblebees

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Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

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A simplified subgeneric classification of the bumblebees (genusBombus)

(2008) Paul H. Williams et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Nutritive value of 15 single pollens and pollen mixes tested on larvae produced by bumblebee workers (Bombus terrestris, Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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