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‘Disease‐smart’ outcrossing can enhance individual fitness and increase survival via immune priming against pathogens: New approaches to strengthen genetic rescue efforts

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 5, Page 786-797, September 2025.
Our study provides a proof of concept for combining immune priming with assisted migration for insect conservation. Introducing genetically diverse, immune‐primed migrants improves both pathogen resistance and reproductive success in inbred individuals.
Enakshi Ghosh, Matthew Wallace, Ruth A. Hufbauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) gut microbiota shaping post medicaments oral administration [PDF]

, 2017
In the last decades, honeybees have been afflicted by several gut diseases such as the American Foulbrood (caused by Paenibacillus larvae), the European Foulbrood (Melissococcus plutonius) and Nosemosis (Nosema ceranae).
4th International Congress on Biodiversity “Man, Natural Habitats and Euro-Mediterranean Biodiversity”, Alberoni, Daniele, Baffoni, Loredana, Gaggia, Francesca, Gioia, Diana di, Ross, Paul, Stanton, Catherine   +6 more
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Integrative Genomics Reveals the Genetics and Evolution of the Honey Bee’s Social Immune System [PDF]

, 2019
Social organisms combat pathogens through individual innate immune responses or through social immunity—behaviors among individuals that limit pathogen transmission within groups.
Currie, Rob, Desai, Suresh, Foster, Leonard, Guarna, Maria Marta, Harpur, Brock, Higo, Heather, Hoover, Shelley, Huxter, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Abdullah, Melathopoulos, Andony, Moon, Kyung-Mee, Pernal, Stephen, Zayed, Amro   +12 more
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Landscape‐Wide Metabarcoding Shows Interactions Among the Gut Microbiome and Pollen Diversity in the Invasive Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
The study examines how environmental factors and dietary diversity influence the gut microbiome of the invasive European buff‐tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in Tasmania. We found that gut bacterial composition and diversity were significantly affected by annual precipitation, pasture percentage, temperature and interactions between pollen ...
Sabrina Haque, Hasinika K. A. H. Gamage, Cecilia Kardum Hjort, Fleur Ponton, Francisco Encinas‐Viso, Ian T. Paulsen, Rachael Y. Dudaniec   +6 more
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Functional Properties and Antimicrobial Activity from Lactic Acid Bacteria as Resources to Improve the Health and Welfare of Honey Bees

Insects, 2022
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are agriculturally important pollinators. Over the past decades, significant losses of wild and domestic bees have been reported in many parts of the world.
Massimo Iorizzo, Francesco Letizia, Sonia Ganassi, Bruno Testa, Sonia Petrarca, Gianluca Albanese, Dalila Di Criscio, Antonio De Cristofaro   +7 more
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Ecology and Pathogenicity for Honey Bee Brood of Recently Described Paenibacillus melissococcoides and Comparison With Paenibacillus dendritiformis, Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Honey bee colonies contain thousands of individuals living in close proximity in a thermally homeostatic nest, creating ideal conditions for the thriving of numerous pathogens. Among the bacterial pathogens, Paenibacillus larvae infects larvae via the nutritive jelly that adult workers feed them, causing the highly contagious American ...
Florine Ory, Benjamin Dainat, Oliver Würgler, Fabian Wenger, Alexandra Roetschi, Lauriane Braillard, Jean‐Daniel Charrière, Vincent Dietemann   +7 more
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Field-Realistic Tylosin Exposure Impacts Honey Bee Microbiota and Pathogen Susceptibility, Which Is Ameliorated by Native Gut Probiotics

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
Antibiotics have been applied to honey bee (Apis mellifera) hives for decades to treat Paenibacillus larvae, which causes American foulbrood disease and kills honey bee larvae. One of the few antibiotics approved in apiculture is tylosin tartrate.
J. Elijah Powell, Zac Carver, Sean P. Leonard, Nancy A. Moran   +3 more
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Environmental DNA Methods for Detection of Varroa destructor in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Hives

Environmental DNA, Volume 7, Issue 3, May–June 2025.
The parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is a worldwide problem for honey bees (Apis mellifera). Using a new species‐specific qPCR assay, we assessed the detection of V. destructor eDNA collected in honey and surface swabs from managed bee hives in Australia, where V. destructor has recently invaded, and in New Zealand, where V. destructor is established.
John M. K. Roberts, Richard J. Hall, Foyez Shams, Francisco Encinas‐Viso, Florence Bravo, Jenn Soroka, Liz Milla, Natale Snape, Francesco Martoni, Antonette Walford, Dianne Gleeson, Alejandro Trujillo‐González   +11 more
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Adoption of Partial Shook Swarm in the Integrated Control of American and European Foulbrood of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.)

Agriculture, 2023
American foulbrood (AFB) and European foulbrood (EFB) are the two most important bacterial diseases that affect honey bee brood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of an integrated treatment of AFB and EFB in naturally infected colonies in
Michela Mosca, Jernej Bubnic, Luigi Giannetti, Luca Fortugno, Marco Pietropaoli, Veronica Manara, Elisabetta Bonerba, Giovanni Formato   +7 more
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Mapping the teaching of honeybee veterinary medicine in the European Union and European Free Trade Area [PDF]

, 2019
Background Honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a very important species for human beings, animals, environmental biodiversity, crop production and economic sustainability in Europe and worldwide. This study investigates whether future veterinarians are trained
Bravo, Ana, De Briyne, Nancy, Iatridou, Despoina, Pohl, Laura, Saunders, Jimmy, Tlak Gajger, Ivana   +5 more
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