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Bidirectional Transfer of RNAi between Honey Bee and Varroa destructor: Varroa Gene Silencing Reduces Varroa Population

The mite Varroa destructor is an obligatory ectoparasite of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and is one of the major threats to apiculture worldwide. We previously reported that honey bees fed on double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) with a sequence homologous to that of the Israeli acute paralysis virus are pr...

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Autores principales: Garbian, Yael, Maori, Eyal, Kalev, Haim, Shafir, Sharoni, Sela, Ilan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23308063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003035