Allyson M. Ray
Pennsylvania State University
7 Papers
7 Citations
Allyson M. Ray is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Honey bee. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications.
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Papers
Investigating the Viral Ecology of Global Bee Communities with High-Throughput Metagenomics
David W. Galbraith,Zachary L. Fuller,Zachary L. Fuller,Allyson M. Ray,Axel Brockmann,Maryann Frazier,Mary W. Gikungu,J. Francisco Iturralde Martinez,Karen M. Kapheim,Karen M. Kapheim,Jeffrey T. Kerby,Sarah D. Kocher,Oleksiy Losyev,Elliud Muli,Harland M. Patch,Cristina Rosa,Joyce M. Sakamoto,Scott Stanley,Anthony D. Vaudo,Christina M. Grozinger +19 more
TL;DR: A novel pipeline to rapidly and inexpensively screen for bee viruses is developed, providing a sequence-independent pipeline for viral metagenomics analysis, and greatly expands the understanding of the diversity of viruses found in bee communities.
Distribution of recently identified bee-infecting viruses in managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations in the USA
Allyson M. Ray,Dawn Lopez,J. Francisco Iturralde Martinez,David W. Galbraith,Robyn Rose,Dennis Van Engelsdorp,Cristina Rosa,Jay D. Evans,Christina M. Grozinger +8 more
TL;DR: This study screened bees from the 2015 USDA National Honey Bee Disease Survey to provide a fine-scale characterization of these viruses in the USA and demonstrates the importance of creating and maintaining large-scale collections for the broader research community.
Simulated vector transmission differentially influences dynamics of two viral variants of deformed wing virus in honey bees (Apis mellifera).
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors mimicked Varroa transmission by serially passaging a mixed population of two DWV variants, A and B, by injection through in vitro reared honey bee pupae and tracking these viral populations through five passages.
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The Beneficial Effect of Pollen on Varroa Infested Bees Depends on Its Influence on Behavioral Maturation Genes
Davide Frizzera,Allyson M. Ray,Elisa Seffin,Virginia Zanni,Desiderato Annoscia,Christina M. Grozinger,Francesco Nazzi +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that treatment with pollen increases the lifespan of mite-infested bees by reversing the faster maturation induced by the parasite at the gene expression level, which lays the groundwork for future analyses of the underlying evolutionary processes and applications to improve bee health.
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Signatures of adaptive decreased virulence of deformed wing virus in an isolated population of wild honey bees (Apis mellifera)
TL;DR: In this paper , the presence and titer of viruses in bees from the Arnot Forest and managed apiaries, and assessed genomic variation and virulence differences between DWV isolates.