Parallel evolution of Varroa resistance in honey bees: a common mechanism across continents?
The near-globally distributed ecto-parasitic mite of the honeybee, has formed a lethal association with Deformed wing virus, a once rare and benign RNA virus. In concert, the two have killed millions of wild and managed colonies, particularly across the Northern Hemisphere, forcing the need for regu...
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| Vydáno v: | Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences Ročník 288; číslo 1956; s. 20211375 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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England
11.08.2021
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| ISSN: | 1471-2954, 1471-2954 |
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| Shrnutí: | The near-globally distributed ecto-parasitic mite of the
honeybee,
has formed a lethal association with Deformed wing virus, a once rare and benign RNA virus. In concert, the two have killed millions of wild and managed colonies, particularly across the Northern Hemisphere, forcing the need for regular acaricide application to ensure colony survival. However, despite the short association (in evolutionary terms), a small but increasing number of
populations across the globe have been surviving many years without any mite control methods. This long-term survival, or
resistance, is consistently associated with the same suite of traits (recapping, brood removal and reduced mite reproduction) irrespective of location. Here we conduct an analysis of data extracted from 60 papers to illustrate how these traits connect together to explain decades of mite resistance data. We have potentially a unified understanding of natural
resistance that will help the global industry achieve widespread miticide-free beekeeping and indicate how different honeybee populations across four continents have resolved a recent threat using the same suite of behaviours. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1471-2954 1471-2954 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2021.1375 |