Temporal Analysis of the Honey Bee Microbiome Reveals Four Novel Viruses and Seasonal Prevalence of Known Viruses, Nosema, and Crithidia

Pathogen detection microarrays analyzing honeybee samples taken from the same hives over the course of a year, oligos correspond to specific pathogens or pathogen families of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists, and other parasites Samples were analyzed with the E-Predict analysis package Twenty hives samples biweekly, Timepoint refers to sample collection week after start, where T01 refers to April 15, 2009. Hive refers to the specific hive sampled.