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SUBMITTER: Moffat C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4415021 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moffat Christopher C Pacheco Joao Goncalves JG Sharp Sheila S Samson Andrew J AJ Bollan Karen A KA Huang Jeffrey J Buckland Stephen T ST Connolly Christopher N CN
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20150129 5
The global decline in the abundance and diversity of insect pollinators could result from habitat loss, disease, and pesticide exposure. The contribution of the neonicotinoid insecticides (e.g., clothianidin and imidacloprid) to this decline is controversial, and key to understanding their risk is whether the astonishingly low levels found in the nectar and pollen of plants is sufficient to deliver neuroactive levels to their site of action: the bee brain. Here we show that bumblebees (Bombus te ...[more]