Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1833, 2016, Pages

  McMahon, Dino P ^a,b,c   Natsopoulou, Myrsini E ^d   Doublet, Vincent ^d,e   Fürst, Matthias ^f,g   Weging, Silvio ^d,e   Brown, Mark J F ^f   Gogol Döring, Andreas ^d,e   Paxton, Robert J ^a,d,e  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decline; Emerging infectious disease; Pollinator; Virulence

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DECLINE; RECOMBINATION; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRULENCE; VIRUS;

APIS MELLIFERA; DEFORMED WING VIRUS;

ANIMAL; BEE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INSECT VIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; BEES; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; INSECT VIRUSES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84976266043     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0811     Document Type: Article

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