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Ryabov EV, Fannon JM, Moore JD, et al. The Iflaviruses Sacbrood virus and Deformed wing virus evoke different transcriptional responses in the honeybee which may facilitate their horizontal or vertical transmission. PeerJ. 2016;4:e1591doi: 10.7717/peerj.1591.
Ryabov, E. V., Fannon, J. M., Moore, J. D., Wood, G. R., & Evans, D. J. (2016). The Iflaviruses Sacbrood virus and Deformed wing virus evoke different transcriptional responses in the honeybee which may facilitate their horizontal or vertical transmission. PeerJ, 4e1591. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1591
Ryabov, Eugene V, et al. "The Iflaviruses Sacbrood virus and Deformed wing virus evoke different transcriptional responses in the honeybee which may facilitate their horizontal or vertical transmission." PeerJ vol. 4 (2016): e1591. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1591
Ryabov EV, Fannon JM, Moore JD, Wood GR, Evans DJ. The Iflaviruses Sacbrood virus and Deformed wing virus evoke different transcriptional responses in the honeybee which may facilitate their horizontal or vertical transmission. PeerJ. 2016 Jan 18;4:e1591. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1591. eCollection 2016. PMID: 26819848; PMCID: PMC4727977.
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PeerJ. 2016 Jan 18;4:e1591. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1591. eCollection 2016.

The Iflaviruses Sacbrood virus and Deformed wing virus evoke different transcriptional responses in the honeybee which may facilitate their horizontal or vertical transmission.

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Eugene V Ryabov, Jessica M Fannon, Jonathan D Moore, Graham R Wood, David J Evans

Affiliations

  1. School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick , Coventry , United Kingdom.
  2. Warwick Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick , Coventry , United Kingdom.
  3. Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St. Andrews , St. Andrews , United Kingdom.

PMID: 26819848 PMCID: PMC4727977 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1591

Abstract

Sacbrood virus (SBV) and Deformed wing virus (DWV) are evolutionarily related positive-strand RNA viruses, members of the Iflavirus group. They both infect the honeybee Apis mellifera but have strikingly different levels of virulence when transmitted orally. Honeybee larvae orally infected with SBV usually accumulate high levels of the virus, which halts larval development and causes insect death. In contrast, oral DWV infection at the larval stage usually causes asymptomatic infection with low levels of the virus, although high doses of ingested DWV could lead to DWV replicating to high levels. We investigated effects of DWV and SBV infection on the transcriptome of honeybee larvae and pupae using global RNA-Seq and real-time PCR analysis. This showed that high levels of SBV replication resulted in down-regulation of the genes involved in cuticle and muscle development, together with changes in expression of putative immune-related genes. In particular, honeybee larvae with high levels of SBV replication, with and without high levels of DWV replication, showed concerted up-regulated expression of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), and down-regulated expression of the prophenoloxidase activating enzyme (PPAE) together with up-regulation of the expression of a putative serpin, which could lead to the suppression of the melanisation pathway. The effects of high SBV levels on expression of these immune genes were unlikely to be a consequence of SBV-induced developmental changes, because similar effects were observed in honeybee pupae infected by injection. In the orally infected larvae with high levels of DWV replication alone we observed no changes of AMPs or of gene expression in the melanisation pathway. In the injected pupae, high levels of DWV alone did not alter expression of the tested melanisation pathway genes, but resulted in up-regulation of the AMPs, which could be attributed to the effect of DWV on the regulation of AMP expression in response to wounding. We propose that the difference in expression of the honeybee immune genes induced by SBV and DWV may be an evolutionary adaptation to the different predominant transmission routes used by these viruses.

Keywords: Antimicrobial peptide; Apis mellifera; Deformed wing virus; Honeybee; Iflavirus; Innate immunity; RNA virus; RNA-Seq; Sacbrood virus; Transcriptome

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