This article is a correction to:
Morphological Changes in the Mandibles Accompany the Defensive Behavior of Indiana Mite Biting Honey Bees Against Varroa Destructor
Jada Smith
Xaryn L. Cleare1
Krispn Given
Hongmei Li-Byarlay- 1Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH, United States
- 2Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
- 3Agricultural Research and Development Program, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH, United States
A Corrigendum on
Morphological changes in the mandibles accompany the defensive behavior of Indiana mite biting honey bees against Varroa destructor
by Smith J, Cleare XL, Given K and Li-Byarlay H (2021) Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:638308. doi: .10.3389/fevo.2021.638308
In the published article, there was an error in the legends for Figures 5, 6 as published. The correct legends appear below.
Figure 5
Figure 5 Six parameters of the scanned mandible are listed on the microCT image. L, length; W, width; H, height; SE, short edge; LE, long edge; S, span of the spine area.
Figure 6
Figure 6 Box plots of the average number of legs missing per mite per colony among two groups, commercial colonies (Comm, Ncolony = 15) and open-mated mite-biter colonies (open-mated mite biter, Ncolony = 7). The open circles indicate outliers. The results showed no difference in the average number of legs missing per mite between the two groups, Q = 2.43, p > 0.05.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: honey bee, Apis mellifera, defensive behavior, Varroa resistance, bite, grooming, mandible, microCT
Citation: Smith J, Cleare XL, Given K and Li-Byarlay H (2024) Corrigendum: Morphological changes in the mandibles accompany the defensive behavior of Indiana mite biting honey bees against Varroa destructor. Front. Ecol. Evol. 12:1363147. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1363147
Received: 29 December 2023; Accepted: 16 January 2024;
Published: 29 January 2024.
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*Correspondence: Hongmei Li-Byarlay, hli-byarlay@centralstate.edu