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Transmission of a bumblebee parasite is robust despite parasite exposure to extreme temperatures [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023 The transmission of a prevalent bumblebee gut parasite is robust to exposure to extreme temperatures. Therefore, its transmission is unlikely to be affected by temperature differences across the seasons, between climates and with climate change in the future.
Hannah S. Wolmuth‐Gordon +1 more
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Urban landscapes tend to increase the presence of pathogenic protozoa, microsporidia and viruses, but likely decrease the abundance of viruses in wild bees and wasps [PDF]
Insect Science, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 1911-1925, December 2025.• The bees Anthophora plumipes and Osmia cornuta had a higher occurrence probability of the neogregarine protozoan Apicystis bombi in more fragmented urban areas.• In the bee Halictus scabiosae and wasp Polistes dominula, hotter urban areas increased the likelihood of occurrence of viruses.• The viruses were found to be replicative in the samples, and ...
Andrea Ferrari +2 more
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How Population Structure and Nest Membership Shape Pathogen Patterns in Bumble Bees [PDF]
Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 22, November 2025.ABSTRACT Host density, genetic diversity and social groups are key factors influencing pathogen transmission in wildlife populations, but their interactions remain poorly understood in insects. Islands can provide natural laboratories with distinct populations that vary in density and genetic diversity, whereby dense, genetically homogeneous ...
Jana Dobelmann, Lena Wilfert
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Urbanization Shifts Immunometabolism in a Common Bumblebee [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.Cities provide contrasting habitats for pollinators and it proves difficult to predict the overall effect of urban living on the health of wild bees. By combining measurements of local competition, pathogen pressures, and exposure to pollutants along an urbanization gradient, we evidenced an upregulation of genes involved in immunometabolism in bees ...
Virginie Cuvillier‐Hot +8 more
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Core symbionts, age at inoculation and diet affect colonization of the bumblebee gut by a common bacterial pathogen [PDF]
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 94, Issue 5, Page 985-998, May 2025.This paper examines ecological interactions within the bumblebee gut microbiome and between the microbiome and host using field sampling and controlled experiments. We demonstrate that non‐core bacteria occur frequently in high abundance in wild bumblebee gut microbiomes.
Annika S. Nelson +2 more
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Microbial Evolution in Allodapine Bees: Perspectives From Trophallactic, Socially Plastic Pollinators [PDF]
Evolutionary Applications, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT This review seeks a deeper functional understanding of wild bee microbiomes by focusing on a tribe of bees where natural history and behavioral ecology are well known but investigations of microbiology are just beginning. Opportunities to improve our future knowledge of pathogens to insect pollinators are explored—which have broad ...
Simon M. Tierney +2 more
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Pathogens, 2021 European Apis mellifera and Asian Apis cerana honeybees are essential crop pollinators. Microbiome studies can provide complex information on health and fitness of these insects in relation to environmental changes, and plant availability.
Aneta A. Ptaszyńska +14 more
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Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2020 Bombus terrestris is a European bumblebee extensively commercialized worldwide for crop pollination. In Chile, this species was introduced in 1997 and after confinement escape, it has spread and established in several localities of central-southern Chile
Kiara Fernández +3 more
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Unbiased RNA Shotgun Metagenomics in Social and Solitary Wild Bees Detects Associations with Eukaryote Parasites and New Viruses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The diversity of eukaryote organisms and viruses associated with wild bees remains poorly characterized in contrast to the well-documented pathosphere of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Karel Schoonvaere +5 more
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Microbiota and pathogens in an invasive bee: Megachile sculpturalis from native and invaded regions
Insect Molecular Biology, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 544-557, October 2023., 2023 The bacterial and fungal gut communities of Megachile sculpturalis bees from invaded regions (USA and France) were highly similar and differed strongly from those obtained from its native region (Japan). The microbial communities of M. sculpturalis in France and the co‐foraging native bees Anthidium florentinum and Halictus scabiosae were significantly
Tina Tuerlings +7 more
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