🐝 Bees have really had a hard couple of years.
Suggested factors leading to collapse of bee colonies worldwide include pesticides, bacteria, & parasitic mites.
But the picture would not be complete unless we looked into the possible role of viral infections, too.
And so, welcome to the bee #virome :
"Nationwide genomic surveillance reveals the prevalence and evolution of honeybee viruses in China"
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01446-1
(shamelessly scooping @eddieholmes here 🤭)
#virus #virology @virology
Suggested factors leading to collapse of bee colonies worldwide include pesticides, bacteria, & parasitic mites.
But the picture would not be complete unless we looked into the possible role of viral infections, too.
And so, welcome to the bee #virome :
"Nationwide genomic surveillance reveals the prevalence and evolution of honeybee viruses in China"
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01446-1
(shamelessly scooping @eddieholmes here 🤭)
#virus #virology @virology
Nationwide genomic surveillance reveals the prevalence and evolution of honeybee viruses in China - Microbiome
Background The economic and environmental value of honeybees has been severely challenged in recent years by the collapse of their colonies worldwide, often caused by outbreaks of infectious diseases.BioMed Central