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ArticleJournal of insect conservation2021

The potential for parasite spill-back from commercial bumblebee colonies: a neglected threat to wild bees?

Callum D Martin, Michelle T Fountain, Mark J F Brown

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Article in Journal of insect conservation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Role of Pathogens in Bumblebee Decline: A Review.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Callum D MartinCentre for Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX UK.
Michelle T FountainEast Malling Research, NIAB EMR, East Malling, Kent, ME19 6BJ UK.
Mark J F BrownCentre for Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX UK.
Royal Holloway University of London · GBEast Malling Research (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Commercially-reared bumblebee colonies provide pollination services to numerous crop species globally. These colonies may harbour parasites which can spill-over to wild bee species. However, the potential for parasites to spread from wild to commercial bumblebees, which could then lead to parasite spill-back, is poorly understood. To investigate this, parasite-free commercial SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10841-021-00322-x.

Indexed as

Commercial bumblebee managementParasite spill-overPollinationStrawberry cropWild bee conservation

Identifiers

PMID34720661
PMCPMC8550768
OpenAlexW3165016623

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Registered trials

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