Cold case: The disappearance of Egypt bee virus, a fourth distinct master strain of deformed wing virus linked to honeybee mortality in 1970's Egypt.

Joachim R. de Miranda; Laura Brettell; Nor Chejanovsky; Anna K. Childers; Anne Dalmon; Ward Deboutte; Dirk C. de Graaf; Vincent Doublet; Haftom Gebremedhn; Elke Genersch; Sebastian Gisder; Fredrik Granberg; Nizar J. Haddad; Rene Kaden; Robyn Manley; Jelle Matthijnssens; Ivan Meeus; Hussein Migdadi; Meghan O. Milbrath; Fanny Mondet; Emily J. Remnant; John M.K. Roberts; Eugene V. Ryabov; Noa Sela; Guy Smagghe; Hema Somanathan; Lena Wilfert; Owen N. Wright; Stephen J. Martin; Brenda V. Ball

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Cold case: The disappearance of Egypt bee virus, a fourth distinct master strain of deformed wing virus linked to honeybee mortality in 1970's Egypt.

Joachim R. de Miranda, Laura Brettell, Nor Chejanovsky, Anna K. Childers, Anne Dalmon, Ward Deboutte, Dirk C. de Graaf, Vincent Doublet, Haftom Gebremedhn, Elke Genersch, Sebastian Gisder, Fredrik Granberg, Nizar J. Haddad, Rene Kaden, Robyn Manley, Jelle Matthijnssens, Ivan Meeus, Hussein Migdadi, Meghan O. Milbrath, Fanny MondetEmily J. Remnant, John M.K. Roberts, Eugene V. Ryabov, Noa Sela, Guy Smagghe, Hema Somanathan, Lena Wilfert, Owen N. Wright, Stephen J. Martin, Brenda V. Ball

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In 1977, a sample of diseased adult honeybees (Apis mellifera) from Egypt was found to contain large amounts of a previously unknown virus, Egypt bee virus, which was subsequently shown to be serologically related to deformed wing virus (DWV). By sequencing the original isolate, we demonstrate that Egypt bee virus is in fact a fourth unique, major variant of DWV (DWV-D): more closely related to DWV-C than to either DWV-A or DWV-B. DWV-A and DWV-B are the most common DWV variants worldwide due to their close relationship and transmission by Varroa destructor. However, we could not find any trace of DWV-D in several hundred RNA sequencing libraries from a worldwide selection of honeybee, varroa and bumblebee samples. This means that DWV-D has either become extinct, been replaced by other DWV variants better adapted to varroa-mediated transmission, or persists only in a narrow geographic or host range, isolated from common bee and beekeeping trade routes.

Original language	English
Article number	12
Pages (from-to)	12
Journal	Virology Journal
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-022-01740-2
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2022

Keywords

Apis mellifera
Bioinformatic screening
Deformed wing virus
Egypt bee virus
Honeybee
Master strain
RNA sequencing
Varroa destructor
Western blot

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de Miranda, J. R., Brettell, L., Chejanovsky, N., Childers, A. K., Dalmon, A., Deboutte, W., de Graaf, D. C., Doublet, V., Gebremedhn, H., Genersch, E., Gisder, S., Granberg, F., Haddad, N. J., Kaden, R., Manley, R., Matthijnssens, J., Meeus, I., Migdadi, H., Milbrath, M. O., ... Ball, B. V. (2022). Cold case: The disappearance of Egypt bee virus, a fourth distinct master strain of deformed wing virus linked to honeybee mortality in 1970's Egypt. Virology Journal, 19(1), 12. Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-022-01740-2

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