Non Apis Bee Microbes

Non apis bee microbes

Evans, J.D. and Schwarz, R.S. (2011) Bees brought to their knees: microbes affecting honey bee health. Trends in Microbiology 19, 614-620.

Bibliography for non-Apis bee micro-organisms.

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Anderson, D. L., and N. L. Gibson. 1998. New species and isolates of spore-cyst fungi (Plectomycetes: Ascosphaerales) from Australia. Aust. Systematic Bot. 11:53.

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Bissett, J. 1988. Contribution toward a monograph of the genus Ascosphaera. Can. J. Bot. 66:2541–2560.

Bissett, J., G. Duke, and M. Goettel. 1996. Ascosphaera acerosa sp. nov. isolated from the alfalfa leafcutting bee, with a key to the species of Ascosphaera. Mycologia 797–803. JSTOR.

Cameron, S. A., J. D. Lozier, J. P. Strange, J. B. Koch, N. Cordes, L. F. Solter, and T. L. Griswold. 2011. Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:662–667.

Clark, T. B. 1982. Entomopoxvirus-like particles in three species of bumblebees. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 39:119–122.

Clark, T. B., R. F. Whitcomb, J. G. Tully, C. Mouches, C. Saillard, J. M. Bove, H. Wroblewski, P. Carle, D. L. Rose, R. B. Henegar, and D. L. Williamson. n.d. Spiroplasma melliferum, a New Species from the Honeybee (Apis mellifera). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 35:296–308.

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Fürst, M. A., D. P. McMahon, J. L. Osborne, R. J. Paxton, and M. J. F. Brown. 2014. Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators. Nature 506:364–366.

Gamboa, V., J. Ravoet, M. Brunain, G. Smagghe, I. Meeus, J. Figueroa, D. Riaño, and D. C. De Graaf. 2015. Bee pathogens found in Bombus atratus from Colombia: A case study. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 129:36–39.

Genersch, E., C. Yue, I. Fries, and J.R. de Miranda. 2006. Detection of deformed wing virus (DWV), a honey bee viral pathogen, in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris and Bombus pascuorum) with wing deformities. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 91: 61-63.

Gerth, M., A. Saeed, J. A. White, and C. Bleidorn. 2015. Extensive screen for bacterial endosymbionts reveals taxon-specific distribution patterns among bees (Hymenoptera, Anthophila). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 91:fiv047–fiv047.

Graystock, P., K. Yates, S. E. F. Evison, B. Darvill, D. Goulson, and W. O. H. Hughes. 2013. The Trojan hives: pollinator pathogens, imported and distributed in bumblebee colonies. J Appl Ecol n/a–n/a.

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McFrederick, Q. S., W. T. Wcislo, M. C. Hout, and U. G. Mueller. 2014. Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 88:398–406.

McMahon, D. P., M. A. Fürst, J. Caspar, P. Theodorou, M. J. F. Brown, and R. J. Paxton. 2015. A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:615-624.

Meeus, I., J.R. de Miranda, D.C. de Graaf, F. Wäckers, and G Smagghe. 2014. Effect of oral infection with Kashmir bee virus and Israeli acute paralysis virus on bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) reproductive success. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 121:64-69.

Meeus, I., V. Vercruysse, and G. Smagghe. 2012. Molecular detection of Spiroplasma apis and Spiroplasma melliferum in bees. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 109:172–174.

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Singh, R. 2011. Ecology and epidemiology of RNA viruses in Hymenopteran pollinators. The Pennsylvania State University (Dissertation).

Singh, R., A. L. Levitt, E. G. Rajotte, E. C. Holmes, N. Ostiguy, D. Vanengelsdorp, W. I. Lipkin, C. W. Depamphilis, A. L. Toth, and D. L. Cox-Foster. 2010. RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran pollinators: evidence of inter-taxa virus transmission via pollen and potential impact on non-Apis hymenopteran species. PLoS One 5:e14357.

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Skou, J. P. 1988. Japanese species of Ascosphaera. Mycotaxon 31:173–190.

Torchio, P. F. 1992. Effects of spore dosage and temperature on pathogenic expressions of chalkbrood syndrome caused by Ascosphaera torchioi within larvae of Osmia lignaria propinqua (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Environmental Entomology 21:1086–1091.

Wynns, A. A., A. B. Jensen, and J. Eilenberg. 2013. Ascosphaera callicarpa, a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the genus for Europe. PLoS One 8:e73419.

Wynns, A. A., A. B. Jensen, J. Eilenberg, and R. James. 2012. Ascosphaera subglobosa, a new spore cyst fungus from North America associated with the solitary bee Megachile rotundata. Mycologia 104:108–114.