Virus linked to puzzling loss of US honeybees

摘要

US beekeepers at last have a suspect for the agent behind the mysterious disappearance of worker honeybees across the country. The loss of worker bees is known as colony collapse disorder, or CCD. A metagenomics study has now revealed that nearly all of the US colonies suffering CCD contained Israeli acute paralysis virus (D. L. Cox-Foster ef al. Science doi:10.1126/ science.l 146498; 2007).