Mites Drive Deformed Wing Virus in Honeybees (2 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Mites Drive Deformed Wing Virus in Honeybees (2 of 8)

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Varroa mites on honeybees. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Wilfert at University of Exeter in Penryn, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites.'

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Prof. Stephen Martin, University of Salford

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