Title
Distribution and variability of deformed wing virus of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in the Middle East and North Africa
Date Issued
01 February 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Haddad N.J.
Noureddine A.
Al-Shagour B.
Loucif-Ayad W.
El-Niweiri M.A.A.
Anaswah E.
Hammour W.A.
El-Obeid D.
Imad A.
Shebl M.A.
Almaleky A.S.
Nasher A.
Walid N.
Bergigui M.F.
de Miranda J.R.
University of Bern
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Three hundred and eleven honeybee samples from 12 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Palestine, and Sudan) were analyzed for the presence of deformed wing virus (DWV). The prevalence of DWV throughout the MENA region was pervasive, but variable. The highest prevalence was found in Lebanon and Syria, with prevalence dropping in Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt before increasing slightly moving westwards to Algeria and Morocco Phylogenetic analysis of a 194 nucleotide section of the DWV Lp gene did not identify any significant phylogenetic resolution among the samples, although the sequences did show consistent regional clustering, including an interesting geographic gradient from Morocco through North Africa to Jordan and Syria. The sequences revealed several clear variability hotspots in the deduced amino acid sequence, which furthermore showed some patterns of regional identity. Furthermore, the sequence variants from the Middle East and North Africa appear more numerous and diverse than those from Europe.
Start page
103
End page
113
Volume
24
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84956488349
PubMed ID
Source
Insect Science
ISSN of the container
16729609
Sponsor(s)
Authors are grateful to collaborators who helped us in sampling: Taoufik Ben Hamida from Tunisia, Prof. Hussan Mustafa from Egypt. Special thanks to collaborators who collected samples under very difficult circumstances: Ibrahim Majid, Sabah, Montasir, and Ahmed Najah from Iraq; Mustafa El-Fituri from Libya; Mayyada Haj Ali from Syria. We also appreciate the efforts of Ahmed Batainh and Moath Al-Gharaibeh from Jordan for their technical field and laboratory support. The authors would like to thank USAID M32-035 and USAID M29-075 project for funding this project.
Sources of information:
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