Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees' aggressiveness.
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.
Rortais
Agnès
A
Laboratoire Populations, Génétique, Evolution CNRS, UPR 9034, avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette -, France. rortais@legs.cnrs-gif.fr
Tentcheva
Diana
D
Papachristoforou
Alexandros
A
Gauthier
Laurent
L
Arnold
Gérard
G
Colin
Marc Edouard
ME
Bergoin
Max
M
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