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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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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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The tragedy of the common? A comparative population genomic study of two bumblebee species
Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 16, Issue 3, Page 335-354, May 2023., 2023 We investigated the population genomics and parasite load of two bumblebee species across the UK and Ireland. Bombus pratorum is widespread while Bombus monticola shows a more fragmented distribution. Notably, both species have suffered significant declines in Ne over the last 100 generations and estimates and declines for both species were of similar ...
Jana V. Huml +5 more
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Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 91, Issue 10, Page 2135-2148, October 2022., 2022 Urbanization can affect species diversity. Yet, whether urbanization affects fitness remains largely neglected. This experiment using bumblebee colonies reveals strong relationships between temperature and landscape‐scale drivers and colony health, performance and reproductive success, suggesting that environmental heterogeneity within the urban ...
Panagiotis Theodorou +8 more
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Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene
Biological Reviews, Volume 96, Issue 6, Page 2755-2770, December 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Global changes are severely affecting pollinator insect communities worldwide, resulting in repeated patterns of species extirpations and extinctions. Whilst negative population trends within this functional group have understandably received much attention in recent decades, another facet of global changes has been overshadowed: species ...
Guillaume Ghisbain +4 more
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Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of honey bee viruses, Nosema microsporidia, protozoan parasites, and parasitic mites in China [PDF]
, 2013 China has the largest number of managed honey bee colonies, which produce the highest quantity of honey and royal jelly in the world; however, the presence of honey bee pathogens and parasites has never been rigorously identified in Chinese apiaries.
Li, Tianbang +7 more
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Sulfoxaflor exposure reduces egg laying in bumblebees Bombus terrestris
Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 160-169, January 2020., 2020 Regulatory bodies such as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) are under increasing pressure to consider the potential impact of insecticides on wild bees, such as bumblebees, but sublethal effects can go undetected at lower‐tier testing. In identifying just such an effect for bumblebees exposed to sulfoxaflor, this study highlights that ...
Harry Siviter +4 more
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Parasite Insight: Apicystis bombi Prevalence of the under-reported parasite Apicystis bombi across natural barriers and life stages in pollinator hosts. [PDF]
, 2020 Annually, bees contribute over US$298 billion to the world economy, mostly through their ecosystem service of pollination. Several anthropogenic effects are reducing global wild and managed bee species populations, such as climate change and agricultural
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Ecosphere, 2019 While many bee species are experiencing population declines, some host plant generalist bees remain common in Europe, partly because they seem able to shift to new resources.
Maryse Vanderplanck +12 more
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