A salivary chitinase of Varroa destructor influences host immunity and mite’s survival

• Andrea Becchimanzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio di Entomologia “E. Tremblay”, Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Napoli “Federico II”, Portici (NA), Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5117-0235

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• Rosarita Tatè,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica “Adriano Buzzati Traverso”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy

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• Ewan M. Campbell,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5573-8243

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• Silvia Gigliotti,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1772-3825

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• Alan S. Bowman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-9033

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• Francesco Pennacchio

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

  * E-mail: f.pennacchio@unina.it

  Affiliations Laboratorio di Entomologia “E. Tremblay”, Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Napoli “Federico II”, Portici (NA), Italy, Interuniversity Center for Studies on Bioinspired Agro-Environmental Technology (BAT Center), University of Napoli “Federico II”, Portici (NA), Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8794-9328

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