Vertical transmission of honey bee viruses in a Belgian queen breeding program
Background: The Member States of European Union are encouraged to improve the general conditions for the production and marketing of apicultural products. In Belgium, programmes on the restocking of honey bee hives have run for many years. Overall, the success ratio of this queen breeding programme has been only around 50%. To tackle this low efficacy, we organized sanitary controls of the breeding queens in 2012 and 2014. Results: We found a high quantity of viruses, with more than 75% of the egg samples being infected with at least one virus. The most abundant viruses were Deformed Wing Viru... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Schlagwörter: | Biology and Life Sciences / viruses / negative-strand detection / honey bee / eggs / vertical transmission / DEFORMED WING VIRUS / ACUTE PARALYSIS VIRUS / APIS-MELLIFERA L / SACBROOD VIRUS / PREVALENCE / INFECTION / MULTIPLICATION / APIARIES / ROUTES / WINTER |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27304234 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6862788 |