Their effort is extremely tentative, and one expert in gene sequencing said the methodology used to finger IAPV is flawed.

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Nobody doubts IAPV is playing some role in the collapsing beehives, but that doesn't mean that IAPV is what's killing the bees.

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He says that it does appear the presence of IAPV is at least a sign that a beehive is likely to die off.

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The bee-research team went on to confirm via polymerase chain reaction that hives with colony collapse disorder were far more likely to have IAPV.

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There is also Varroa, a parasitic mite, which has been another problem in bees for some time, and which might also transmit the IAPV.

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And there is no reason, Eisen argues, that there might not be untold numbers of other pathogens that could also be linked to IAPV based on this data.

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One explanation offered by both Dr Ratnieks and Mr Traynor is of a once-rare disease, possibly caused by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), sweeping through colonies that have already been weakened by parasites such as Nosema ceranae, a parasitic fungus from Asia.

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Now, using one of the fastest DNA sequencers on the market, researchers at Penn State, Columbia University, and the United States Department of Agriculture have found that collapsing hives are much more likely to be infected by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), using a new approach that aims to sequence all the genes in an environment almost as if they were single organisms.

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