Hygienic behaviour selection via freeze-killed honey bee brood not associated with chalkbrood resistance in eastern Australia

• Jody Gerdts ,

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

  * E-mail: beescientifics@gmail.com

  Current address: Department of Pharmacy and Applied Science La Trobe University, Flora Hill Victoria, Australia

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Applied Science, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-4688

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• R. Laurie Dewar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. Laurie Dewar, Michael Simone Finstrom

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Honey Bee Breeding Program, Dewar Apiaries, Kalbar, Queensland, Australia

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• Michael Simone Finstrom ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. Laurie Dewar, Michael Simone Finstrom

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2938-9788

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• Trevor Edwards ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Tullamarine Vic, Australia

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• Michael Angove

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Applied Science, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

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