Tropilaelaps mercedesae parasitism changes behavior and gene expression in honey bee workers

• Jing Gao ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Shilong Ma ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Bee Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

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• Xinling Wang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yang Yang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Qihua Luo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Miyun Apicultural Station, Beijing, China

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• Xing Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Beijing Apicultural Station, Beijing, China

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• Feng Liu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Jiangxi Institute of Apicultural Research, Nanchang, China

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• Qiang Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zhongmin Fu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Bee Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

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• Qingyun Diao,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4133-0036

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• Pingli Dai

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: daipingli@caas.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-652X

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