Black queen cell virus and drifting of honey bee workers ( Apis mellifera )

Retschnig, Gina; Kellermann, Liv Anna; Mehmann, Marion M.; Yañez, Orlando; Winiger, Pius; Williams, Geoffrey R.; Neumann, Peter (2019). Black queen cell virus and drifting of honey bee workers ( Apis mellifera ) Journal of Apicultural Research, 58(5), pp. 754-755. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/00218839.2019.1655133

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Social insects may accidentally drift into foreign nests due to orientation errors. Even though pathogens have beenreported to promote drifting, no data currently exist about the potential impact of titers of the widespread black queencell virus (BQCV) on the orientation abilities of honey bee workers,Apis mellifera. Here, we investigated titers ofBQCV in naturally infected drifted and non-drifted workers. The data show significantly higher virus titers in the driftedworkers (Wilcoxon rank sum test,P<0.01). Our results suggest that high BQCV loads may compromise honey beeorientation, possibly by affecting learning performance similar to other viruses. If future work demonstrates that thecorrelation found here represents a causal relationship between higher viral titers and drifting, this will be the first iden-tification of clinical symptoms of BQCV in adult honey bee hosts

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL > Resource-efficient agricultural production systems School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL > Agriculture School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL > Agriculture > Soils and Geoinformation
Name:	Retschnig, Gina; Kellermann, Liv Anna; Mehmann, Marion M.; Yañez, Orlando; Winiger, Pius; Williams, Geoffrey R. and Neumann, Peter
Subjects:	Q Science > QL Zoology Q Science > QR Microbiology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology S Agriculture > SF Animal culture
ISSN:	0021-8839
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Language:	English
Submitter:	Simon Lutz
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2020 11:50
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2021 02:18
Publisher DOI:	10.1080/00218839.2019.1655133
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Black queen cell virus (BQCV), Apis mellifera, drifting, virus
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.13390
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/13390