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The Composition and Biological Activity of Honey: A Focus on Manuka Honey [PDF]
Foods, 2014 Honey has been used as a food and medical product since the earliest times. It has been used in many cultures for its medicinal properties, as a remedy for burns, cataracts, ulcers and wound healing, because it exerts a soothing effect when initially applied to open wounds.
José Alvarez-Suarez +4 more
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Scientific ReportsThe Varroa destructor mite’s transmission of deformed wing virus (DWV) to honey bees is responsible for most winter mortalities of colonies worldwide. Four DWV genotypes (A, B, C and D) and numerous recombinants have been described.
Fabrice Sircoulomb +7 more
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Viruses, 2023 Sacbrood virus (SBV) infection has emerged as a remarkable threat to Apis cerana colonies in South Korea, necessitating prompt control measures. In this study, RNA interference (RNAi) targeting the VP3 gene was developed to assess its safety and efficacy
Mi-Sun Yoo +7 more
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Honey as a Complementary Medicine [PDF]
Integrative Medicine Insights, 2017 The beneficial effects of honey on human health have long been recognized. Today, many of those positive effects have been studied to elucidate its mode of action. This review briefly summarizes the best studied features of honey, highlighting it as an appealing alternative medicine.
Miguel, M. G. +2 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Pollinator insects play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity and agricultural production worldwide. Yet they are subject to various infectious and parasitic agents (IPAs).
M. Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet +7 more
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Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota
Nature Communications, 2019 The structure and distribution of genomic diversity in natural microbial communities is largely unexplored. Here, we used shotgun metagenomics to assess the diversity of the honey bee gut microbiota, a community consisting of few bacterial phylotypes ...
K. Ellegaard, Philipp Engel
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 The mitochondrial genome of Apis mellifera ruttneri consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, 22 tRNAs, an AT-rich control region, and was 16,577 bp long. The phylogenetic analyses suggested that A. m.
Leigh Boardman +6 more
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Molecules, 2022 Honeys are commonly subjected to a series of post-harvest processing steps, such as filtration and/or radiation treatment and heating to various temperatures, which might affect their physicochemical properties and bioactivity levels. Therefore, there is
Md Khairul Islam +4 more
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Nutritional Physiology and Ecology of Honey Bees.
Annual Review of Entomology, 2018 Honey bees feed on floral nectar and pollen that they store in their colonies as honey and bee bread. Social division of labor enables the collection of stores of food that are consumed by within-hive bees that convert stored pollen and honey into royal ...
Geraldine A. Wright +2 more
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Navigation by Honey Bees [PDF]
, 2020 International audience; Navigation by honey bees refers to the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms bees of the genus Apis use to move between a location and one or multiple goals. These involve the evaluation and integration of direction and distance cues as well as the learning of specific places.
Even, Naïla +4 more
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