> What does a certain number of viral copies in an egg mean?
Plainly, they think it means SOMETHING, and a number of virus copies below the qPRC threshold would be far, far less "infected", so they are not going too far off the path with this.
" the impact of different virus infection loads in eggs on subsequent developmental stages is currently unknown. Further research, where eggs with different virus infections are reared in vitro, could improve our understanding of the impact that vertical transmission has on antiviral responses and honey bee health."
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