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Bee disease offers rare insights into RNA virus origins
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The varroa mite poses a major threat to Australia’s bee industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstroth_hive#/media/File:Beekeeper_with_moveable_comb_hive.j

Two similar strains of a destructive honey bee disease have vastly different origin stories, revealing the ability of viruses to adapt rapidly and the risk this poses to global agriculture, according to new research involving Professor Sasha Mikheyev from The Australian National University (ANU). 

Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) is a single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus

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