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ReviewSaudi journal of biological sciences2021

Viral impacts on honey bee populations: A review.

Amjad Ullah, Ivana Tlak Gajger, Arnold Majoros, Showket Ahmad Dar, Sanaullah Khan, Kalimullah, Ayesha Haleem Shah, Muhammad Nasir Khabir, Riaz Hussain, Hikmat Ullah Khan and 2 more

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Review in Saudi journal of biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Amjad UllahDepartment of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat-26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Ivana Tlak GajgerDepartment for Biology and Pathology of Fish and Bees, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Arnold MajorosVeterinary Ambulance LunaVet, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Showket Ahmad DarDivision of Agricultural Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India.
Sanaullah KhanDepartment of Zoology, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
KalimullahDepartment of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat-26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Ayesha Haleem ShahInstitute of Biological Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan.
Muhammad Nasir KhabirDepartment of Zoology, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Riaz HussainDepartment of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat-26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Hikmat Ullah KhanDepartment of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat-26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Mehwish HameedDepartment of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat-26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Syed Ishtiaq AnjumDepartment of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat-26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Kohat University of Science and Technology · PKUniversity of Peshawar · PKGomal University · PKScientific Veterinary Institute "Novi Sad" · RSSher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir · INUniversity of Zagreb · HR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Honey bee is vital for pollination and ecological services, boosting crops productivity in terms of quality and quantity and production of colony products: wax, royal jelly, bee venom, honey, pollen and propolis. Honey bees are most important plant pollinators and almost one third of diet depends on bee's pollination, worth billions of dollars. Hence the role that honey bees have in environment and their economic importance in food production, their health is of dominant significance. Honey bees can be infected by various pathogens like: viruses, bacteria, fungi, or infested by parasitic mites. At least more than 20 viruses have been identified to infect honey bees worldwide, generally from Dicistroviridae as well as Iflaviridae families, like ABPV (Acute Bee Paralysis Virus), BQCV (Black Queen Cell Virus), KBV (Kashmir Bee Virus), SBV (Sacbrood Virus), CBPV (Chronic bee paralysis virus), SBPV (Slow Bee Paralysis Virus) along with IAPV (Israeli acute paralysis virus), and DWV (Deformed Wing Virus) are prominent and cause infections harmful for honey bee colonies health. This issue about honey bee viruses demonstrates remarkably how diverse this field is, and considerable work has to be done to get a comprehensive interpretation of the bee virology.

Indexed as

Honey bee colony lossesHoney beesHost immunityImpactsPollinationViruses

Identifiers

PMID33424335
PMCPMC7783639
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