Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

Author:

Wilfert L.1,Long G.2,Leggett H. C.2,Schmid-Hempel P.3,Butlin R.2,Martin S. J. M.4,Boots M.15

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR11 9FE, UK.

2. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

3. Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.

4. School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, UK.

5. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Abstract

Varroa -vectored virus pandemic Bees are facing several threats that are causing population collapses. Wilfert et al. found that European honey bees are the primary source of deformed wing virus (DWV) (see the Perspective by Villalobos). However, paradoxically, transmission between bees is inefficient. It seems that parasitic mites can facilitate virus transmission. European honeybees acquired the rapidly spreading Varroa mite from Asian honey bees, possibly via the commercial exchange of queens. Not only do bees suffer direct damage from the mites, but the bees are also efficiently inoculated with DWV. Science , this issue p. 594 ; see also p. 554

Funder

Natural Environment Research Council

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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