Infectivity of DWV associated to flower pollen: Experimental evidence of a horizontal transmission route

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Mazzei, Maurizio ^a   Carrozza, Maria Luisa ^b   Luisi, Elena ^a   Forzan, Mario ^a   Giusti, Matteo ^a   Sagona, Simona ^a   Tolari, Francesco ^a   Felicioli, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; DEFORMED WING VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FLOWER; HORIZONTAL VIRUS TRANSMISSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMIA CORNUTA; POLLEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; TAQMAN ONE STEP QRT PCR ASSAY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT VIRUS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; VIROLOGY;

DEFORMED WING VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLOWERS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECT VIRUSES; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84912571006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113448     Document Type: Article

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