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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 01:14:17+00:00

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Varroa mites are widely considered the biggest honey bee health problem worldwide [1-4]. Until recently, Varroa jacobsoni has been found to live and reproduce only in Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) colonies, while V. destructor successfully reproduces in both A. cerana and A. mellifera colonies. However, we have identified an island population of V. jacobsoni that is highly destructive to A. mellifera, the primary species used for pollination and honey production. The ability of these populations of mites to cross the species boundary represents a potentially enormous threat to apiculture. This ability is presumably due to genetic variation that exists among populations of V. jacobsoni and influences gene expression and reproductive status. In this work, we investigate differences in gene expression between populations of V. jacobsoni reproducing on A. cerana and those reproducing on A. mellifera in order to gain insight into the differences that allow V. jacobsoni to overcome its normal species tropism.
This database contains information regarding sample collection of Varroa jacobsoni mites, RNA sequences (raw reads), newly discovered transcripts assemblies and Blast searches of V. jacobsoni mites. The database is presented as a spreadsheet which can be viewed by clicking the Dataview (blue button) at the top of the page. Scroll to the right on the Dataview to see the Reports and Data columns, these fields contains fasta files, Blast searches and fastq files. All fields in the database are described below.
Report(s): Transcript assemblies (fasta fortmat) created by assembling all reads from all samples described in this experiment. Transcript assemblies (fasta fortmat) created by assembling all reads from all samples described in this experiment and Blastx results.
Following are references cited in the abstract:  Vanengelsdorp D, Hayes J, Underwood RM, Pettis J: A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the US, Fall 2007 to Spring 2008. PloS one 2008, 3(12).  Currie RW, Pernal SF, Guzmán-Novoa E: Honey bee colony losses in Canada. J Apicult Res 2010, 49(1):104-106.  Dahle B: role of Varroa destructor for honey bee colony losses in Norway. J Apicult Res 2010.  Guzmán-Novoa E, Eccles L, Calvete Y, McGowan J, Kelly PG, Correa-Benítez A: Varroa destructor is the main culprit for the death and reduced populations of overwintered honey bee ( Apis mellifera) colonies in Ontario, Canada. Apidologie 2010, 41(4):443-450.
Gladys K. Andino; Michael Gribskov; Denis Anderson; Jay Evans; Greg Hunt (2015), "RNA sequences and transcriptome assemblies of Varroa jacobsoni (honey bee Varroa mites)," http://datacenterhub.org/resources/382.

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