ArticleScientific reports2017
The virulent, emerging genotype B of Deformed wing virus is closely linked to overwinter honeybee worker loss.
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- Meta-analysis of honey bee neurogenomic response links Deformed wing virus type A to precocious behavioral maturation.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
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- Deformed wing virus affects foraging success and foraging specialization of honeybee workers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bumble Bees and Honey Bees on Islands Harbour Reduced Viral Species Richness, Yet Honey Bee Populations Are Dominated by a Deformed Wing Virus Recombinant.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Interactions of husbandry, landscape, and immunity in regulating viral loads for managed honey bees.Biology open · 2025Article
- Superinfection Exclusion in Neotropical Honey Bees May Block DWV-B, an Emerging Infectious Disease Variant of Deformed Wing Virus.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
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- Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Genotype B of deformed wing virus and related recombinant viruses become dominant in European honey bee colonies.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Avoiding the tragedies of parasite tolerance in Darwinian beekeeping.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
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- Common viral infections inhibit egg laying in honey bee queens and are linked to premature supersedure.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Known and novel viruses in Belgian honey bees: yearly differences, spatial clustering, and associations with overwintering loss.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
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- Caught in the act: the invasion of a viral vector changes viral prevalence and titre in native honeybees and bumblebees.Biology letters · 2024Article
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Abstract
Bees are considered to be threatened globally, with severe overwinter losses of the most important commercial pollinator, the Western honeybee, a major concern in the Northern Hemisphere. Emerging infectious diseases have risen to prominence due to their temporal correlation with colony losses. Among these is Deformed wing virus (DWV), which has been frequently linked to colony mortality. We now provide evidence of a strong statistical association between overwintering colony decline in the field and the presence of DWV genotype-B (DWV-B), a genetic variant of DWV that has recently been shown to be more virulent than the original DWV genotype-A. We link the prevalence of DWV-B directly to a quantitative measure of overwinter decline (workforce mortality) of honeybee colonies in the field. We demonstrate that increased prevalence of virus infection in individual bees is associated with higher overwinter mortality. We also observed a substantial reduction of infected colonies in the spring, suggesting that virus-infected individuals had died during the winter. Our findings demonstrate that DWV-B, plus possible A/B recombinants exhibiting DWV-B at PCR primer binding sites, may be a major cause of elevated overwinter honeybee loss. Its potential emergence in naïve populations of bees may have far-reaching ecological and economic impacts.
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