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Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence

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Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence. / Grindrod, Isobel; Kevill, Jessica L; Villalobos, Ethel M et al.
In: Viruses, Vol. 13, No. 6, 969, 24.05.2021.

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Grindrod, I, Kevill, JL, Villalobos, EM, Schroeder, DC & Martin, SJ 2021, 'Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence', Viruses, vol. 13, no. 6, 969. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13060969

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Grindrod, I., Kevill, J. L., Villalobos, E. M., Schroeder, D. C., & Martin, S. J. (2021). Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence. Viruses, 13(6), Article 969. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13060969

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Grindrod I, Kevill JL, Villalobos EM, Schroeder DC, Martin SJ. 2021. Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence. Viruses. 13(6):Article 969. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13060969

MLA

Grindrod, Isobel et al. "Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence". Viruses. 2021. 13(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/v13060969

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Grindrod I, Kevill JL, Villalobos EM, Schroeder DC, Martin SJ. Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence. Viruses. 2021 May 24;13(6):969. doi: 10.3390/v13060969

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Grindrod, Isobel ; Kevill, Jessica L ; Villalobos, Ethel M et al. / Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence. In: Viruses. 2021 ; Vol. 13, No. 6.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Ten Years of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) in Hawaiian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), the Dominant DWV-A Variant Is Potentially Being Replaced by Variants with a DWV-B Coding Sequence

AU - Grindrod, Isobel

AU - Kevill, Jessica L

AU - Villalobos, Ethel M

AU - Schroeder, Declan C

AU - Martin, Stephen John

PY - 2021/5/24

Y1 - 2021/5/24

N2 - The combination of Deformed wing virus (DWV) and is arguably one of the greatest threats currently facing western honey bees, . s association with DWV has decreased viral diversity and increased loads of DWV within honey bee populations. Nowhere has this been better studied than in Hawaii, where the arrival of progressively led to the dominance of the single master variant (DWV-A) on both mite-infested Hawaiian Islands of Oahu and Big Island. Now, exactly 10 years following the original study, we find that the DWV population has changed once again, with variants containing the coding sequence pertaining to the master variant B beginning to co-dominate alongside variants with the DWV-A sequence on the mite-infested islands of Oahu and Big Island. In speculation, based on other studies, it appears this could represent a stage in the journey towards the complete dominance of DWV-B, a variant that appears better adapted to be transmitted within honey bee colonies.

AB - The combination of Deformed wing virus (DWV) and is arguably one of the greatest threats currently facing western honey bees, . s association with DWV has decreased viral diversity and increased loads of DWV within honey bee populations. Nowhere has this been better studied than in Hawaii, where the arrival of progressively led to the dominance of the single master variant (DWV-A) on both mite-infested Hawaiian Islands of Oahu and Big Island. Now, exactly 10 years following the original study, we find that the DWV population has changed once again, with variants containing the coding sequence pertaining to the master variant B beginning to co-dominate alongside variants with the DWV-A sequence on the mite-infested islands of Oahu and Big Island. In speculation, based on other studies, it appears this could represent a stage in the journey towards the complete dominance of DWV-B, a variant that appears better adapted to be transmitted within honey bee colonies.

KW - Varroa

KW - deformed wing virus

KW - honey bee

U2 - 10.3390/v13060969

DO - 10.3390/v13060969

M3 - Article

C2 - 34073733

VL - 13

JO - Viruses

JF - Viruses

SN - 1999-4915

IS - 6

M1 - 969

ER -