Transferrin-mediated iron sequestration suggests a novel therapeutic strategy for controlling Nosema disease in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

• Cristina Rodríguez-García,

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

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0257-2745

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• Matthew C. Heerman †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Steven C. Cook,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4927-1402

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• Jay D. Evans,

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

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-4651

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• Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2156-5548

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• Olubukola Banmeke,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yi Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3078-2926

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• Shaokang Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, College of Animal Sciences (Bee Science), Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China

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• Michele Hamilton,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yan Ping Chen

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

  * E-mail: judy.chen@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5224-1100

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