Measuring biological age to assess colony demographics in honeybees.

Honeybee colonies are increasingly exposed to environmental stress factors, which can lead to their decline or failure. However, there are major gaps in stressor risk assessment due to the difficulty of assessing the honeybee colony state and detecting abnormal events. Since stress factors usually i...

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Main Authors: Cedric Alaux, Samuel Soubeyrand, Alberto Prado, Mathilde Peruzzi, Alban Maisonnasse, Julien Vallon, Julie Hernandez, Pascal Jourdan, Yves Le Conte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209192