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A scientific note on the first detection of black queen cell virus in honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Mexico

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Acknowledgments

We thank Rodrigo Medellin, Itzel Vasquez, Angeles Terán, Alvaro de la Mora, and Esther Uribe for their assistance in sampling colonies. This study was partially supported by a Discovery NSERC grant to EGN.

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  1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada

    Ernesto Guzman-Novoa & Mollah Md. Hamiduzzaman

  2. Departamento de Medicina y Zootecnia en Abejas, FMVZ, UNAM, Cd. Universitaria, Mexico, DF, 04510, Mexico

    Adriana Correa-Benítez & Laura G. Espinosa-Montaño

  3. Centro Nacional de Investigación en Fisiología Animal, INIFAP, Km 1 Carr. Colón, Ajuchitlán, Qro, 76280, Mexico

    José L. Uribe-Rubio

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Guzman-Novoa, E., Hamiduzzaman, M.M., Correa-Benítez, A. et al. A scientific note on the first detection of black queen cell virus in honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Mexico. Apidologie 44, 382–384 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-012-0191-4

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