Stress indicator gene expression profiles, colony dynamics and tissue development of honey bees exposed to sub-lethal doses of imidacloprid in laboratory and field experiments

• Lina De Smet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lina De Smet, Fani Hatjina

  * E-mail: lina.desmet@ugent.be

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Entomology and Bee Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8005-2059

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• Fani Hatjina ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lina De Smet, Fani Hatjina

  Affiliation Division of Apiculture, Institute of Animal Science, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation ‘DEMETER’, Nea Moudania, Greece

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• Pavlos Ioannidis,

  Affiliation Division of Apiculture, Institute of Animal Science, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation ‘DEMETER’, Nea Moudania, Greece

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• Anna Hamamtzoglou,

  Affiliation Division of Apiculture, Institute of Animal Science, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation ‘DEMETER’, Nea Moudania, Greece

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• Karel Schoonvaere,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Entomology and Bee Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Frédéric Francis,

  Affiliation Department of Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

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• Ivan Meeus,

  Affiliation Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Guy Smagghe,

  Affiliation Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Dirk C. de Graaf

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Entomology and Bee Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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