Varroa destructor

High-throughput sequencing identification of genes involved with Varroa destructor resistance in the eastern honeybee, Apis cerana

T. Ji, Yin, L., Liu, Z., Shen, F., and Shen, J., High-throughput sequencing identification of genes involved with Varroa destructor resistance in the eastern honeybee, Apis cerana, vol. 13, pp. 9086-9096, 2014.

Varroa destructor is the greatest threat to the honeybee Apis mellifera worldwide, while it rarely causes serious harm to its native host, the Eastern honeybee Apis cerana. The genetic mechanisms underlying the resistance of A. cerana to Varroa remain unclear. Thus, understanding the molecular mechanism of resistance to Varroa may provide useful insights for reducing this disease in other organisms. In this study, the transcriptomes of two A. cerana colonies were sequenced using the Illumina Solexa sequencing method.

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