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A metagenomic survey of microbes in honey bee colony collapse disorder.

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  • 1. Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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    • Cox-Foster DL 1
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Science, 06 Sep 2007, 318(5848):283-287
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146498 PMID: 17823314 

A comment on this article appears in "The latest buzz about colony collapse disorder." Science. 2008 Feb 8;319(5864):724-5; author reply 724-5.

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In colony collapse disorder (CCD), honey bee colonies inexplicably lose their workers. CCD has resulted in a loss of 50 to 90% of colonies in beekeeping operations across the United States. The observation that irradiated combs from affected colonies can be repopulated with naive bees suggests that infection may contribute to CCD. We used an unbiased metagenomic approach to survey microflora in CCD hives, normal hives, and imported royal jelly. Candidate pathogens were screened for significance of association with CCD by the examination of samples collected from several sites over a period of 3 years. One organism, Israeli acute paralysis virus of bees, was strongly correlated with CCD.

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