Effect of stacked insecticidal Cry proteins from maize pollen on nurse bees (Apis mellifera carnica) and their gut bacteria.

Honey bee pollination is a key ecosystem service to nature and agriculture. However, biosafety research on genetically modified crops rarely considers effects on nurse bees from intact colonies, even though they receive and primarily process the largest amount of pollen. The objective of this study...

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Main Authors: Harmen P Hendriksma, Meike Küting, Stephan Härtel, Astrid Näther, Anja B Dohrmann, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Christoph C Tebbe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3606186?pdf=render