Ben Jones's research while affiliated with Fera and other places
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Publications (3)
Inspectors with the UK National Bee Unit were asked for 2007-2008 to target problem apiar-ies in England and Wales for pathogen screening and colony strength measures. Healthy colonies were included in the sampling to provide a continuum of health conditions. A total of 406 adult bee samples was screened and yielded 7 viral, 1 bacterial, and 2 micr...
European foulbrood (EFB) persists in England and Wales despite current treatment methods, all of which include feeding honey bee colonies with the antibiotic oxytetracycline (OTC). A large-scale field experiment was conducted to monitor a husbandry-based method, using comb replacement (known as Shook swarm), as a drug free EFB control option. The u...
Ugandan honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) produce honey, and are key pollinators within commercial crops and natural ecosystems. Real-time RT-PCR was used to screen immature and adult bees collected from 63 beekeeping sites across Uganda for seven viral pathogens. No samples tested positive for Chronic bee paralysis virus, Sacbrood virus, Deformed win...
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... The respondents indicated all types of managed honey bee colonies (weak, medium, and strong) were affected by honey bee mass death, but more pronounced in weak and medium colony (Table 3). The result showed that strong colonies were less susceptible for mass mortality, which was supported by other studies that weaker colonies have frequently been associated with a higher occurrence of diseases in honey bees (Budge et al 2015). ...
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... We assessed the colony-level occurrence of 18 microparasites using high-throughput qPCR on a Biomark HD system (Standard BioTools) with parasite-specific primers (Budge et al., 2010;Cepero et al., 2015;D'Alvise et al., 2019;Evans, 2006;Locke et al., 2012;Lourenço et al., 2008;Martínez et al., 2010;Papp et al., 2014) Table S1 for a list of the parasites and reference genes assayed). We ran three qPCR replicates for each assay and considered a parasite taxon as present in a colony if target molecules were detected in at least two. ...
... Among the biotic factors, the Varroa destructor mite and infection by the RNA viruses are the most important [1,2,5]. Both the varroa-mite and RNA viruses like deformed wing virus (DWV), Lake Sinai virus, acute bee paralysis virus, chronic bee paralysis virus, sacbrood virus, and black queen cell virus have been reported in different parts of Africa [6][7][8][9][10]. Unlike the Western bees, honey bees in some African countries such as South Africa [11], Ethiopia [12,13], Kenya [14], and Uganda [15] suffer less from mite infestations. ...
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