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SUBMITTER: Wintermantel D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303475 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wintermantel Dimitry D Locke Barbara B Andersson Georg K S GKS Semberg Emilia E Forsgren Eva E Osterman Julia J Rahbek Pedersen Thorsten T Bommarco Riccardo R Smith Henrik G HG Rundlöf Maj M de Miranda Joachim R JR
Nature communications 20181221 1
Neonicotinoids are implicated in bee declines and laboratory studies imply that they impair the bee immune system, thereby precipitating a rise in pathogen levels. To establish whether such synergisms reduce bee performance in real-world agricultural landscapes, we analysed the microbial composition of the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) samples from our recent landscape study on the impacts of field-level clothianidin exposure. We related clothianidin exposure and microbial composition to both in ...[more]