A mathematical model for the interplay of Nosema infection and forager losses in honey bee colonies

We present a mathematical model (a) for the infection of a honey bee colony with Nosema ceranae. This is a system of five ordinary differential equations for the dependent variables healthy and infected worker bees in the hive, healthy and infected forager bees, and disease potential deposited in th...

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Main Authors: Alex Petric, Ernesto Guzman-Novoa, Hermann J. Eberl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Biological Dynamics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2016.1237682