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Re: IAPV the primary cause of CCD?
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Kathy Kellison <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 May 2010 00:42:53 -0400
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> A decrease in neuronal capacities involved >

"..modifications to neural functioning can occur when the immune system
competes for a resource required by the nervous system
Such trade-offs between the immune and nervous systems raise the 
intriguing possibility that many ecological decisions made by animals reflect
a compromise between immune defence and cognitive function."

from: Bumble-bee foragers infected by a gut parasite have impaired ability to 
      utilize floral information, Gegear, Otterstatter and Thomson, 2006

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