Virginia Zanni

A mutualistic symbiosis between a parasitic mite and a pathogenic virus undermines honey bee immunity and health

Gennaro Di Prisco, Desiderato Annoscia, Marina Margiotta et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · 263 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Immunology +17

Epidemiology of a major honey bee pathogen, deformed wing virus: potential worldwide replacement of genotype A by genotype B

Robert J. Paxton, Marc Oliver Schäfer, Francesco Nazzi et al. · International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife · 2022 · 94 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Evolutionary Biology +17

Haemolymph removal by <i>Varroa</i> mite destabilizes the dynamical interaction between immune effectors and virus in bees, as predicted by Volterra's model

Desiderato Annoscia, Sam P. Brown, Gennaro Di Prisco et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2019 · 80 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Immunology +17

Elucidating the mechanisms underlying the beneficial health effects of dietary pollen on honey bees (Apis mellifera) infested by Varroa mite ectoparasites

Desiderato Annoscia, Virginia Zanni, David A. Galbraith et al. · Scientific Reports · 2017 · 69 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Infectious Diseases +17

Transcriptional signatures of parasitization and markers of colony decline in Varroa-infested honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Virginia Zanni, David A. Galbraith, Desiderato Annoscia et al. · Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2017 · 56 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +16