About the Authors
- Wayne Hunter
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* E-mail: nitzan@beeologics.com (NP); dennis.vanengelsdorp@gmail.com (DV); wayne.hunter@ars.usda.gov (WH)
Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Horticultural Research Lab, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America
- James Ellis
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Affiliation University of Florida, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Dennis vanEngelsdorp
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* E-mail: nitzan@beeologics.com (NP); dennis.vanengelsdorp@gmail.com (DV); wayne.hunter@ars.usda.gov (WH)
Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Jerry Hayes
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Affiliation Florida Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant and Apiary Inspection, Apiary Inspection Section, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Dave Westervelt
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Affiliation Florida Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant and Apiary Inspection, Apiary Inspection Section, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Eitan Glick
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Affiliation Beeologics Inc., Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Michael Williams
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Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ilan Sela
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Affiliation Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Virus Laboratory, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Eyal Maori
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Affiliation Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Virus Laboratory, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Jeffery Pettis
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Affiliation USDA, ARS, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Diana Cox-Foster
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Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Nitzan Paldi
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* E-mail: nitzan@beeologics.com (NP); dennis.vanengelsdorp@gmail.com (DV); wayne.hunter@ars.usda.gov (WH)
Affiliation Beeologics Inc., Miami, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Cox-Foster and J. Hayes are on the technical advisory board for Beeologics, Dr. Ilan Sela is the CSO and co-founder, and Eitan Glick and Nitzan Paldi are employees of Beeologics. Dr. Jeffery Pettis is the Research Leader responsible for bee research at the Bee Lab, USDA, ARS, Maryland, and has established a cooperative agreement with Beeologics, post completion of this research.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JE DV JH JP NP. Performed the experiments: WH JE DV JH DW EG MW IS EM JP DCF NP. Analyzed the data: DV NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH JE DV JH DW EG MW IS JP DCF NP. Wrote the paper: WH JE DV EM NP. Organized regulatory collaborations and inspections: JE DV JH DW MW NP.