Publications

special issue: honey bee viruses.	pollination of flowering plants is an important ecosystem service provided by wild insect pollinators and managed honey bees. hence, losses and declines of pollinating insect species threaten human food security and are of major concern not only for apiculture or agriculture but for human society in general. honey bee colony losses and bumblebee declines have attracted intensive research interest over the last decade and although the problem is far from being solved we now know that viruses are ...	2015	26702462
genome characterization, prevalence and distribution of a macula-like virus from apis mellifera and varroa destructor.	around 14 distinct virus species-complexes have been detected in honeybees, each with one or more strains or sub-species. here we present the initial characterization of an entirely new virus species-complex discovered in honeybee (apis mellifera l.) and varroa mite (varroa destructor) samples from europe and the usa. the virus has a naturally poly-adenylated rna genome of about 6500 nucleotides with a genome organization and sequence similar to the tymoviridae (tymovirales; tymoviridae), a pred ...	2015	26154017