A closer look at deformed wing virus

American Bee Journal

Volumn 147, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 962-964

  Traynor, Kirsten ^a  

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Indexed keywords

DEFORMED WING VIRUS;

EID: 36148962064     PISSN: 00027626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (4)

1. Yue, Constanze and Genersch, Elke. RT-PCR analysis of Deformed wing virus in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and (Varroa destructor). Journal of General Virology (2005), 86 3419-3424
2. Yue, et al. Vertical-transmission routes for deformed wing virus of honey bees (Apis mellifera). Journal of General Virology (2007), 88, 000-000
3. Yue et al. (2007)
4. DWV is a plus-strand RNA virus. When it replicates, it must create minus-strand RNA. This minus-strand RNA is only present during replication, when the virus is creating new infectious copies of itself. So if you find minus-strand RNA from DWV, then you know the virus is replicating itself.