In the past centuries, viruses have benefited from globalization to spread across the globe,
infecting new host species and populations. A growing number of viruses have been …

Deformed wing virus (DWV) has become the most well-known, widespread, and intensively
studied insect pathogen in the world. Although DWV was previously present in honeybee …

The gut microbiome plays an important role in bee health and disease. But it can be
disrupted by pesticides and in-hive chemicals, putting honey bee health in danger. We used …

The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is of major economic and ecological importance,
with elevated rates of colony losses in temperate regions over the last two decades thought …

Numerous studies have recently reported on the discovery of bee viruses in different
arthropod species and their possible transmission routes, vastly increasing our …

Invasive vectors can induce dramatic changes in disease epidemiology. While viral
emergence following geographical range expansion of a vector is well known, the influence …

With their long lives and extreme reproductive output, social insect queens have escaped
the classic trade-off between fecundity and lifespan, but evidence for a trade-off between …

Novel transmission routes can directly impact the evolutionary ecology of infectious
diseases, with potentially dramatic effect on host populations and knock‐on effects on the …

Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a bee-pathogenic, single-and positive-stranded RNA virus
that has been involved in severe honey bee colony losses worldwide. DWV, when …

The strong association between Varroa destructor, deformed wing virus (DWV), and high
overwintering colony losses (OCL) of honey bees is well established. Three DWV master …