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Affiliations

• ¹ Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China.
• ² Department of Agriculture, ARS, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
• ³ Department of Agriculture, ARS, Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory,Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Agriculture, ARS, Soybean Genomic & Improvement Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Agriculture, ARS, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Agriculture, ARS, Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, USA judy.chen@ars.usda.gov.