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Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness

Guards of Cyprian honey bee colonies, Apis mellifera cypria, display a great defensive behaviour against hornets' attacks. The deformed wing virus (DWV) and the kakugo virus (KV) genomes are very similar, but unlike KV, the presence of DWV is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness. This...

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Autores principales: Rortais, Agnès, Tentcheva, Diana, Papachristoforou, Alexandros, Gauthier, Laurent, Arnold, Gérard, Colin, Marc Edouard, Bergoin, Max
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16942620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-61
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author Rortais, Agnès
Tentcheva, Diana
Papachristoforou, Alexandros
Gauthier, Laurent
Arnold, Gérard
Colin, Marc Edouard
Bergoin, Max
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Tentcheva, Diana
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description Guards of Cyprian honey bee colonies, Apis mellifera cypria, display a great defensive behaviour against hornets' attacks. The deformed wing virus (DWV) and the kakugo virus (KV) genomes are very similar, but unlike KV, the presence of DWV is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness. This discrepancy is further discussed.
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spelling pubmed-15601142006-09-06 Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness Rortais, Agnès Tentcheva, Diana Papachristoforou, Alexandros Gauthier, Laurent Arnold, Gérard Colin, Marc Edouard Bergoin, Max Virol J Short Report Guards of Cyprian honey bee colonies, Apis mellifera cypria, display a great defensive behaviour against hornets' attacks. The deformed wing virus (DWV) and the kakugo virus (KV) genomes are very similar, but unlike KV, the presence of DWV is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness. This discrepancy is further discussed. BioMed Central 2006-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC1560114/ /pubmed/16942620 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-61 Text en Copyright © 2006 Rortais et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rortais, Agnès
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Bergoin, Max
Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
title Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
title_full Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
title_fullStr Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
title_full_unstemmed Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
title_short Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
title_sort deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560114/
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