Dynamic evolution in the key honey bee pathogen deformed wing virus: Novel insights into virulence and competition using reverse genetics

• Eugene V. Ryabov ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Eugene.Ryabov@gmail.com, Eugene.Ryabov@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-9714

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• Anna K. Childers,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0747-8539

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• Dawn Lopez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kyle Grubbs,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Francisco Posada-Florez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Daniel Weaver,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, Beeweaver Apiaries, Navasota, Texas, United States of America

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• William Girten,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, United States of America

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• Dennis vanEngelsdorp,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yanping Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jay D. Evans

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-4651

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