TY - JOUR
T1 - Deformed wing virus in western honey bees (Apis mellifera) from Atlantic Canada and the first description of an overtly-infected emerging queen
AU - Williams, Geoffrey R.
AU - Rogers, Richard E.L.
AU - Kalkstein, Abby L.
AU - Taylor, Benjamin A.
AU - Shutler, Dave
AU - Ostiguy, Nancy
N1 - Funding Information:
Research supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship to G.R.W., a NSERC Discovery grant to D.S., and USDA Critical Issues program project number 2008-37610-18842. We thank the beekeepers who allowed us access to their colonies.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - Deformed wing virus (DWV) in western honey bees (Apis mellifera) often remains asymptomatic in workers and drones, and symptoms have never been described from queens. However, intense infections linked to parasitism by the mite Varroa destructor can cause worker wing deformity and death within 67 h of emergence. Ten workers (eight with deformed wings and two with normal wings) and three drones (two with deformed wings and one with normal wings) from two colonies infected with V. destructor from Nova Scotia, Canada, and two newly-emerged queens (one with deformed wings and one with normal wings) from two colonies infected with V. destructor from Prince Edward Island, Canada, were genetically analyzed for DWV. We detected DWV in all workers and drones, regardless of wing morphology, but only in the deformed-winged queen. This is the first report of DWV from Atlantic Canada and the first detection of a symptomatic queen with DWV from anywhere.
AB - Deformed wing virus (DWV) in western honey bees (Apis mellifera) often remains asymptomatic in workers and drones, and symptoms have never been described from queens. However, intense infections linked to parasitism by the mite Varroa destructor can cause worker wing deformity and death within 67 h of emergence. Ten workers (eight with deformed wings and two with normal wings) and three drones (two with deformed wings and one with normal wings) from two colonies infected with V. destructor from Nova Scotia, Canada, and two newly-emerged queens (one with deformed wings and one with normal wings) from two colonies infected with V. destructor from Prince Edward Island, Canada, were genetically analyzed for DWV. We detected DWV in all workers and drones, regardless of wing morphology, but only in the deformed-winged queen. This is the first report of DWV from Atlantic Canada and the first detection of a symptomatic queen with DWV from anywhere.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jip.2009.01.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jip.2009.01.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 19373971
AN - SCOPUS:64049099058
SN - 0022-2011
VL - 101
SP - 77
EP - 79
JO - Journal of invertebrate pathology
JF - Journal of invertebrate pathology
IS - 1
ER -