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Project

Winter loss of honeybees (apis mellifera): identification of novel and known honeybee viruses associated with weak colonies using state of the art viral metagenomics approaches

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

160M05816

Duration

01 January 2017 → 31 December 2018

Funding

Federal funding: various

Promotor

Dirk de Graaf

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Biochemistry and metabolism
Medical and health sciences
- Medical biochemistry and metabolism
- Medical biochemistry and metabolism
- Medical biochemistry and metabolism

Keywords

health honeybee virome

Project description

The main hypotheses of this project are that the honeybee virome is largely underexplored, that many currently unknown viruses may play a crucial role in Winter Loss (WL) and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in beehives worldwide, and that the reduction of the burden of particular viruses may be of great benefit for overall honeybee health.

English

Dutch

English

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