Temporal analysis of the honey bee microbiome reveals four novel viruses and seasonal prevalence of known viruses, Nosema, and Crithidia

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Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Runckel, Charles ^a,b   Flenniken, Michelle L ^c   Engel, Juan C ^c   Ruby, J Graham ^a,b   Ganem, Donald ^a,b   Andino, Raul ^c   DeRisi, Joseph L ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA MELLIFICAE; HONEYBEE; INCIDENCE; LAKE SINAI VIRUS 2; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUMMER; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WINTER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BEE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; TIME; VIROLOGY;

APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA LIGUSTICA; APOIDEA; CRITHIDIA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA SP.; RNA VIRUSES; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEES; CRITHIDIA; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSEMA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958172988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020656     Document Type: Article

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