Multi-tiered analyses of honey bees that resist or succumb to parasitic mites and viruses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Varroa destructor mites, and the numerous viruses they vector to their honey bee hosts, are among the most serious threats to honey bee populations, causing mortality and morbidity to both the individual honey bee and colony, the negative effects of which convey to the pollination services provided by honey bees worldwide. Here we use a combination of targeted assays and deep RNA sequencing to determine host and microbial changes in resistant and susceptible honey bee lineages. We focus on three study sets. The first involves field sampling of sympatric western bees, some derived from resistant stock and some from stock susceptible to mites. The second experiment contrasts three colonies more deeply, two from susceptible stock from the southeastern U.S. and one from mite

SUBMITTER: Weaver DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature