image: Transmission of deformed wing virus during bee development can result in visible malformations. Lower level infections although not evident physically, still affect the bees by weakening the immune system and reducing the bee's life span. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.M. Villalobos at University of Hawaii in Manoa, HI, and colleagues was titled, 'The mite that jumped, the bee that traveled, the disease that followed.' view more
Credit: Ethel M. Villalobos, University of Hawaii, Zhening Zhang, University of Hawaii, Scott Nikaido, University of Hawaii