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Viruses Infecting Cuban Honey Bees and Evolution of Deformed-Wing-Virus Variants.
Poppy J Hesketh-Best, Anais R Luis, Declan C Schroeder, Stephen J Martin
Published: 202610.3390/v18010148
Abstract
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 c…
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