title: Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness.
abstract: Guards of Cyprian honey bee colonies, Apis mellifera cypria, display a great defensive behaviour against hornets' attacks. The deformed wing virus (DWV) and the kakugo virus (KV) genomes are very similar, but unlike KV, the presence of DWV is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness. This discrepancy is further discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Populations, Génétique, Evolution CNRS, UPR 9034, avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette -, France. rortais@legs.cnrs-gif.fr
authors.forename: Agnès
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rortais
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tentcheva
authors.forename: Alexandros
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papachristoforou
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Marc Edouard
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Colin
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bergoin
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology / Q000821:virology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D007304:Insect Viruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D012328:RNA Viruses / Q000235:genetics; D014921:Wings, Animal / Q000002:abnormalities