2022 journal article

Fertility costs of cryptic viral infections in a model social insect

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1).

By: A. Chapman *, E. Amiri *, B. Han *, E. McDermott n, O. Rueppell *, D. Tarpy n , L. Foster *, A. McAfee*

MeSH headings : Animals; Antiviral Agents; Bees; Dicistroviridae; Female; Fertility; Heat-Shock Proteins; Insecta; Male; Semen; Virus Diseases; Vitellogenins
TL;DR: Investigation of viruses as a threat to social insect reproduction, using honey bees as a model species, shows that viral infections occurring naturally in the field are compromising queen reproductive success. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: July 24, 2023

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