Meta-analysis of honey bee neurogenomic response links Deformed wing virus type A to precocious behavioral maturation

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 3101
• Main Authors: Traniello, Ian M., Bukhari, Syed Abbas, Kevill, Jessica, Ahmed, Amy Cash, Hamilton, Adam R., Naeger, Nicholas L., Schroeder, Declan C., Robinson, Gene E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 20.02.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 38/91; 631/158/2456; 631/378/3919; Agriculture; Animals; Apis mellifera; Bees; Bees - virology; Behavior, Animal; Behavioral plasticity; Brain - physiopathology; Colonies; Ectoparasites; Female; Forage; Foraging behavior; Gene expression; Gene Expression Regulation; Gene Regulatory Networks; Glial cells; Honey; Humanities and Social Sciences; Infections; Male; Meta-analysis; Mimicry; multidisciplinary; Neuronal-glial interactions; Overwintering; Pollination; Ribonucleic acid; RNA; RNA Virus Infections - physiopathology; RNA Virus Infections - veterinary; RNA Viruses; RNA-Seq; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Social Behavior; Transcription factors; Varroidae - virology; Viral Load; Virus Diseases

Crop pollination by the western honey bee Apis mellifera is vital to agriculture but threatened by alarmingly high levels of colony mortality, especially in Europe and North America. Colony loss is due, in part, to the high viral loads of Deformed wing virus (DWV), transmitted by the ectoparasitic m...