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Microbial Ecology of European Foul Brood Disease in the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera): Towards a Microbiome Understanding of Disease Susceptibility

Insects, 2020
European honey bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus) are beneficial insects that provide essential pollination services for agriculture and ecosystems worldwide.
Amy S. Floyd, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes, Duan C. Copeland, Quinn S. McFrederick, Kirk E. Anderson   +5 more
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In the battle of the disease: a transcriptomic analysis of European foulbrood-diseased larvae of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera)

BMC Genomics, 2022
Background European foulbrood is a significant bacterial brood disease of Apis sp. and can cause severe and devastating damages in beekeeping operations.
Oleg Lewkowski, Anja Poehlein, Rolf Daniel, Silvio Erler   +3 more
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Honey as a Source of Environmental DNA for the Detection and Monitoring of Honey Bee Pathogens and Parasites

Veterinary Sciences, 2020
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has been proposed as a powerful tool to detect and monitor cryptic, elusive, or invasive organisms. We recently demonstrated that honey constitutes an easily accessible source of eDNA.
Anisa Ribani, Valerio Joe Utzeri, Valeria Taurisano, Luca Fontanesi   +3 more
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Characterization of prophages in bacterial genomes from the honey bee (Apis mellifera) gut microbiome [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
The gut of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) possesses a relatively simple bacterial community, but little is known about its community of prophages (temperate bacteriophages integrated into the bacterial genome).
Emma K. Bueren, Alaina R. Weinheimer, Frank O. Aylward, Bryan B. Hsu, David C. Haak, Lisa K. Belden   +5 more
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Presence and distribution of pests and diseases of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Mexico: a review

The European Zoological Journal, 2023
The European honey bee, Apis mellifera L., is the bee species with the largest geographic distribution in the world. It is considered a pollinator generalist of wild plants and agricultural crops, as well as honey bee products as honey, beeswax, and ...
G. Peña-Chora, E. Toledo-Hernández, C. Sotelo-Leyva, P. Damian-Blanco, A. G. Villanueva-Flores, P. Alvarez-Fitz, F. Palemón-Alberto, S. Á. Ortega-Acosta   +7 more
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony strength and its effects on pollination and yield in highbush blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
Many pollination studies with honey bees have examined the effect of colony density on crop yield and yet overlook the effect of variation in the population size of these colonies.
Kennedy Judith Grant, Lisa DeVetter, Andony Melathopoulos   +2 more
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A high-throughput sequencing survey characterizing European foulbrood disease and Varroosis in honey bees

Scientific Reports, 2023
As essential pollinators of ecosystems and agriculture, honey bees (Apis mellifera) are host to a variety of pathogens that result in colony loss. Two highly prevalent larval diseases are European foulbrood (EFB) attributed to the bacterium Melissococcus
Kirk E. Anderson, Duan C. Copeland, Robert J. Erickson, Amy S. Floyd, Patrick C. Maes, Brendon M. Mott   +5 more
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Prevalence of honey bee pathogens and parasites in South Korea: A five-year surveillance study from 2017 to 2021

Heliyon, 2023
Honey bees play an important role in the pollination of crops and wild plants and provide important products to humans. Pathogens and parasites are the main factors that threaten beekeeping in South Korea.
A-Tai Truong, Mi-Sun Yoo, Soo Kyoung Seo, Tae Jun Hwang, Soon-Seek Yoon, Yun Sang Cho   +5 more
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Kunkecin A, a New Nisin Variant Bacteriocin Produced by the Fructophilic Lactic Acid Bacterium, Apilactobacillus kunkeei FF30-6 Isolated From Honey Bees

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Apilactobacillus kunkeei FF30-6 isolated from healthy honey bees synthesizes the bacteriocin, which exhibits antimicrobial activity against Melissococcus plutonius.
Takeshi Zendo, Chihiro Ohashi, Shintaro Maeno, Xingguo Piao, Seppo Salminen, Kenji Sonomoto, Akihito Endo   +6 more
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Adhesion and Anti-Adhesion Abilities of Potentially Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria and Biofilm Eradication of Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Pathogens

Molecules, 2022
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) naturally inhabits the organisms of honeybees and can exhibit adhesive properties that protect these insects against various pathogenic microorganisms.
Aleksandra Leska, Adriana Nowak, Karolina Henryka Czarnecka-Chrebelska   +2 more
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