Deformed wing virus implicated in overwintering honeybee colony losses

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7212-7220

  Highfield, Andrea C ^a   El Nagar, Aliya ^a   Mackinder, Luke C M ^a   Noël, Laure M L J ^a,c   Hall, Matthew J ^a   Martin, Stephen J ^b   Schroeder, Declan C ^a  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CONTROL TREATMENTS; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; DISEASE SYMPTOMS; FUNGAL DISEASE; HONEYBEE COLONIES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; VIRUS INFECTION;

VIRUSES;

COLONY; HONEYBEE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MITE; OVERWINTERING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOM; VIRUS; WING; WORKER CASTE;

ACUTE BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; ARTICLE; BLACK QUEEN CELL VIRUS; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HONEYBEE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MITE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS; VIRUS LOAD;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACARI; ACUTE BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; APIS MELLIFERA; BLACK QUEEN CELL VIRUS; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 70449339227     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02227-09     Document Type: Article

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