PNAS

Structure of deformed wing virus, a major honey bee pathogen

Honey bee populations in Europe and North America have been decreasing since the 1950s. Deformed wing virus (DWV), which is undergoing a worldwide epidemic, causes the deaths of individual honey bees ...
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DWV heeft nieuwe trainer

Na het treurige overlijden van Kees Guijt drie weken geleden is het bestuur van DWV op zoek gegaan naar een nieuwe trainer voor volgend seizoen. Afgelopen maandag is deze gevonden in de persoon van ...
Frontiers

Occurrence and Phylogenetic Analysis of DWV in Stingless Bee (Apidae sp.) in China: A Case Report

Honey bees play a vital role in providing pollination services for agricultural crops and wild flowering plants. However, the spillover risk of their pathogens to other pollinators or wild insects is ...
Frontiers

Characterization of the Copy Number and Variants of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in the Pairs of Honey Bee Pupa and Infesting Varroa destructor or Tropilaelaps mercedesae

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China 2 School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China PCR products obtained by RT-PCR were ...
New Atlas

Emerging strain of honeybee virus proves even more deadly

Viral infections have been identified as a major factor in the continued decline of bee colonies, including the devastating, parasite-transmitted Deformed Wing Virus (DWV). Now, European researchers ...