Everything, everywhere, all at once - Surveillance and molecular epidemiology reveal Melissococcus plutonius is endemic among Michigan, US beekeeping operations

• Peter D. Fowler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter D. Fowler, Meghan O. Milbrath

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

  * E-mail: fowlerpe@msu.edu

  Affiliation Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4369-6007

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• Upasana Dhakal ,

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

  ¶‡ UD and JHC, MOM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Jeff H. Chang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ UD and JHC, MOM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Meghan O. Milbrath

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter D. Fowler, Meghan O. Milbrath

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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