FIG 2.

Larval mortality rates at 24 h after inoculation (A) and survival rates of adult workers (B) of A. cerana (Ac) and A. mellifera (Am) inoculated with AcSBV under laboratory conditions. In panel A, the boxes represent first quartiles and third quartiles, the horizontal lines indicate the median, and the whiskers represent the minimum and maximum for all observed values. Mortality rates of larvae and survival rates of adult workers were calculated from 20 larvae and 50 adult workers per treatment group, respectively. Am/PBS, A. mellifera larvae fed PBS; Am/AcSBV, A. mellifera larvae infected with AcSBV; Ac/PBS, A. cerana larvae fed PBS; Ac/AcSBV, A. cerana larvae infected with AcSBV. The data are averages from three replicates. *, P < 0.05.