Parasitology, 2015 SUMMARYMany pollinators are currently suffering from declines, diminishing their gene pool and increasing their vulnerability to parasites. Recently, an increasing diversity of parasites has been recorded in bumblebees, yet for many, knowledge of their virulence and hence the risk their presence poses, is lacking.
PETER GRAYSTOCK +4 more
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Comprehensive bee pathogen screening in Belgium reveals Crithidia mellificae as a new contributory factor to winter mortality. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Since the last decade, unusually high honey bee colony losses have been reported mainly in North-America and Europe. Here, we report on a comprehensive bee pathogen screening in Belgium covering 363 bee colonies that were screened for 18 known disease ...
Jorgen Ravoet +6 more
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Assessment of intestinal parasites in the coexisting Bombus terrestris (Apidae) and Xylocopa augusti (Apidae) in central Chile [PDF]
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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Long-term prevalence of the protists Crithidia bombi and Apicystis bombi and detection of the microsporidium Nosema bombi in invasive bumble bees [PDF]
, 2017 Fil: Antúnez, Karina.
Plischuk, Santiago +3 more
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Transmission of a bumblebee parasite is robust despite parasite exposure to extreme temperatures. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 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.
Wolmuth-Gordon HS, Brown MJF.
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How Population Structure and Nest Membership Shape Pathogen Patterns in Bumble Bees. [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT 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 ...
Dobelmann J, Wilfert L.
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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 Sci• 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 ...
Ferrari A, Cilia G, Polidori C.
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Urbanization Shifts Immunometabolism in a Common Bumblebee. [PDF]
Ecol EvolCities 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 ...
Cuvillier-Hot V +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]
J Anim EcolThis 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.
Nelson AS, Larson MJ, Hammer TJ.
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Microbial Evolution in Allodapine Bees: Perspectives From Trophallactic, Socially Plastic Pollinators. [PDF]
Evol ApplABSTRACT 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 ...
Tierney SM, Jeffries TC, Koch H.
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