Africanized honey bees in Colombia exhibit high prevalence but low level of infestation of Varroa mites and low prevalence of pathogenic viruses

Víctor Manuel Tibatá; Andrés Sanchez; Evan Palmer-Young; Howard Junca; Victor Manuel Solarte; Shayne Madella; Fernando Ariza; Judith Figueroa; Miguel Corona

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244906

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Africanized honey bees in Colombia exhibit high prevalence but low level of infestation of Varroa mites and low prevalence of pathogenic viruses

Víctor Manuel Tibatá,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Andrés Sanchez,

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Evan Palmer-Young,

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bee Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-2073

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Howard Junca,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation RG Microbial Ecology, Div. Ecogenomics & Holobionts–Microbiomas Foundation, Chia, Colombia
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Victor Manuel Solarte,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0385-0126

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Shayne Madella,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bee Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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Fernando Ariza,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Judith Figueroa,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Miguel Corona

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Miguel.Corona@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Bee Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2582-5397

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Africanized honey bees in Colombia exhibit high prevalence but low level of infestation of Varroa mites and low prevalence of pathogenic viruses

Víctor Manuel Tibatá,
Andrés Sanchez,
Evan Palmer-Young,
Howard Junca,
Victor Manuel Solarte,
Shayne Madella,
Fernando Ariza,
Judith Figueroa,
Miguel Corona

Published: May 20, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244906

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