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How honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) respond to infection with Nosema ceranae and Lotmaria passim
DownloadFall 2024
Nosema ceranae and Lotmaria passim are two commonly encountered digestive tract parasites of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) that have been associated with colony losses in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Though honey bees can be co-infected with these parasites, little is known...
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The Evolutionary Ecology of Parasitic Strategies: Experimental Evolution with a Facultatively Ectoparasitic Mite
DownloadSpring 2019
Although parasitism is a ubiquitous lifestyle, little empirical evidence exists for how and why parasitism evolves from free-living lineages. Analysis of phylogenetic relationships among taxa that exhibit a range of lifestyles has aided in the development of a commonly proposed hypothesis for the...