title: A novel strain of sacbrood virus of interest to world apiculture.
abstract: This study has characterised a novel serotype of Sacbrood virus (SBV) infecting Apis mellifera in New Guinea that has emerged in the presence of the introduced European and Asian serotypes, which infect A. mellifera and Apis cerana, respectively. The New Guinea serotype appears to have evolved through mutation of the European serotype with no evidence of recombination between known strains, although recombination was detected in other SBV isolates from Asia. SBV was also confirmed for the first time causing disease in Apis dorsata (giant Asian honeybee) in Indonesia and found to be infected by the Asian serotype.
authors.affiliation: Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Black Mountain Laboratories, Clunies Ross Street, ACT 2601, Australia. Electronic address: john.roberts@csiro.au.
authors.forename: J M K
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.affiliation: CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Black Mountain Laboratories, Clunies Ross Street, ACT 2601, Australia.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001516:Bees / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009512:New Guinea; D010802:Phylogeny; D012328:RNA Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D065288:Serogroup
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral
keywords: Apis cerana; Apis dorsata; Apis mellifera; Honeybee; Recombination; Serotype