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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have contributed significantly to the
current biodiversity crisis, leading to widespread epidemics and population loss.
Owing to genetic variation in pathogen virulence, a complete understanding of
species decline requires the accurate identification and characterization of EIDs.
We explore this issue in the Western honeybee, where increasing mortality of populations
in the Northern Hemisphere has caused major concern. Specifically, we investigate
the importance of genetic identity of the main suspect in mortality, deformed
wing virus (DWV), in driving honeybee loss. Using laboratory experiments and a
systematic field survey, we demonstrate that an emerging DWV genotype (DWV-B)
is more virulent than the established DWV genotype (DWV-A) and is widespread in
the landscape. Furthermore, we show in a simple model that colonies infected with
DWV-B collapse sooner than colonies infected with DWV-A. We also identify potential
for rapid DWV evolution by revealing extensive genome-wide recombination in vivo.
The emergence of DWV-B in naive honeybee populations, including via recombination
with DWV-A, could be of significant ecological and economic importance. Our findings
emphasize that knowledge of pathogen genetic identity and diversity is critical
to understanding drivers of species decline.
acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture
and Consumer Protection (Germany): Fit Bee project (grant 511-06.01-28-1-71.007-10),
the EU: BeeDoc (grant 244956), iDiv (2013 NGS-Fast Track grant W47004118) and the
Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI grant BB/I000100/1 and BB/I000151/1). The IPI
is funded jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,
the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment
Research Council, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the Living
with Environmental Change Partnership. We thank A. Abrahams, M. Husemann and A.
Soro\r\nfor support in obtaining\r\nV. destructor\r\n-free honeybees; and BBKA\r\nPresident
D. Aston for access to records of colony overwinter\r\n2011–2012 mortality in the
UK. We also thank the anonymous refe-\r\nrees and Stephen Martin for comments that
led to substantial\r\nimprovement of the manuscript."
article_number: '20160811'
author:
- first_name: Dino
full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Myrsini
full_name: Natsopoulou, Myrsini
last_name: Natsopoulou
- first_name: Vincent
full_name: Doublet, Vincent
last_name: Doublet
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Fürst, Matthias
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last_name: Fürst
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- first_name: Silvio
full_name: Weging, Silvio
last_name: Weging
- first_name: Mark
full_name: Brown, Mark
last_name: Brown
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Gogol Döring, Andreas
last_name: Gogol Döring
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Paxton, Robert
last_name: Paxton
citation:
ama: Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, et al. Elevated virulence of an emerging
viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London Series B Biological Sciences. 2016;283(1833). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0811
apa: Mcmahon, D., Natsopoulou, M., Doublet, V., Fürst, M., Weging, S., Brown, M.,
… Paxton, R. (2016). Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver
of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological
Sciences. Royal Society, The. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0811
chicago: Mcmahon, Dino, Myrsini Natsopoulou, Vincent Doublet, Matthias Fürst, Silvio
Weging, Mark Brown, Andreas Gogol Döring, and Robert Paxton. “Elevated Virulence
of an Emerging Viral Genotype as a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. Royal Society, The,
2016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0811.
ieee: D. Mcmahon et al., “Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype
as a driver of honeybee loss,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series
B Biological Sciences, vol. 283, no. 1833. Royal Society, The, 2016.
ista: Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, Fürst M, Weging S, Brown M, Gogol Döring
A, Paxton R. 2016. Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver
of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological
Sciences. 283(1833), 20160811.
mla: Mcmahon, Dino, et al. “Elevated Virulence of an Emerging Viral Genotype as
a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series
B Biological Sciences, vol. 283, no. 1833, 20160811, Royal Society, The, 2016,
doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0811.
short: D. Mcmahon, M. Natsopoulou, V. Doublet, M. Fürst, S. Weging, M. Brown, A.
Gogol Döring, R. Paxton, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological
Sciences 283 (2016).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:00Z
date_published: 2016-06-29T00:00:00Z
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