About the Authors
- R. Scott Cornman
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Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Yan Ping Chen
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Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Michael C. Schatz
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Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Craig Street
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Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Yan Zhao
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Affiliation USDA-ARS Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Brian Desany
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Affiliation 454 Life Sciences/Roche Applied Sciences, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
- Michael Egholm
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Affiliation 454 Life Sciences/Roche Applied Sciences, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
- Stephen Hutchison
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Affiliation 454 Life Sciences/Roche Applied Sciences, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
- Jeffery S. Pettis
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Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- W. Ian Lipkin
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Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Jay D. Evans
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* E-mail: Jay.evans@ars.usda.gov
Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
ME, SH, and BD are employed by 454 Life Sciences/Roche Applied Sciences.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YPC JSP WIL JDE. Performed the experiments: YPC ME SH WIL. Analyzed the data: RSC MCS CS YZ BD JDE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSC YPC MCS JSP WIL JDE. Wrote the paper: RSC YPC JDE.