Promiscuous feeding on multiple adult honey bee hosts amplifies the vectorial capacity of Varroa destructor

• Zachary S. Lamas ,

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

  * E-mail: zaclamas@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2208-1887

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• Serhat Solmaz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Apiculture Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ordu, Turkey

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• Eugene V. Ryabov,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joseph Mowery,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Electron & Confocal Microscopy Unit, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Matthew Heermann †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Daniel Sonenshine,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jay D. Evans,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• David J. Hawthorne

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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