Unbiased RNA Shotgun Metagenomics in Social and Solitary Wild Bees Detects Associations with Eukaryote Parasites and New Viruses

• Karel Schoonvaere ,

  * E-mail: karel.schoonvaere@ugent.be

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Entomology and Bee Pathology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-7630

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• Lina De Smet,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Entomology and Bee Pathology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Guy Smagghe,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Andy Vierstraete,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Ageing Physiology and Molecular Evolution, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Bart P. Braeckman,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Ageing Physiology and Molecular Evolution, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Dirk C. de Graaf

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Entomology and Bee Pathology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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