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Viruses Infecting Cuban Honey Bees and Evolution of Deformed-Wing-Virus Variants.
Viruses - 22 Jan 2026
Hesketh-Best Poppy J, Luis Anais R, Schroeder Declan C, Martin Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Cuba is in a unique situation in which it has a large (220,000 managed colonies) and isolated honey bee population due to a 60+ year ban on the importation of bees. Despite this, the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor arrived in 1996, and with it came deformed wing virus (DWV). In 2018, an island-wide survey detected varroa and DWV in 91% of colonies. In this study, we conducted a full-virome analysis on some...
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