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Title:   Author  item
                                            Evans, Jayitem
                                            SPIVAK, MARLA - University Of Minnesota
  Submitted to: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
                                    Publication Type: Review Article
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 9/1/2009
                                    Publication  Date: 10/15/2009
                                    Citation: Evans, J.D., Spivak, M. 2009. Socialized Medicine:  Individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 103:562-572.Interpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: Honey bees are attacked by numerous parasites and pathogens toward which they present defenses. In this review, we will briefly introduce the many pathogens and parasites afflicting honey bees, highlighting the biologies of specific taxonomic groups mainly as they relate to virulence and possible defenses. Second, we will describe physiological, immunological, and behavioral responses of individual bees toward parasites. Third, bees also show behavioral mechanisms for reducing the disease risk of their nestmates.  Accordingly, we discuss the dynamics of hygienic behavior and other group-level behaviors that can limit disease. Finally, we conclude with several avenues of research that seem especially promising for understanding host-parasite relationships in bees and for developing breeding or management strategies for enhancing honey bee defenses. Finally, we will discuss how human efforts to maintain healthy colonies intersect with similar efforts by the bees, and how bee management and breeding protocols can affect disease traits in the short and long term.


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