Changes in the Gene Expression Profiles of the Hypopharyngeal Gland of Worker Honeybees in Association with Worker Behavior and Hormonal Factors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The hypopharyngeal glands (HPGs) of worker honeybees undergo physiological changes along with the age-dependent role change from nursing to foraging: nurse bee HPGs secrete mainly major royal jelly proteins, whereas forager HPGs secrete mainly α ...
Takayuki Ueno +3 more
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queen Reproductive Potential Affects Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone Composition and Worker Retinue Response. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Reproductive division of labor is one of the defining traits of honey bees (Apis mellifera), with non-reproductive tasks being performed by workers while a single queen normally monopolizes reproduction.
Juliana Rangel +3 more
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The Pathogen Profile of a Honey Bee Queen Does Not Reflect That of Her Workers
Insects, 2020 Throughout a honey bee queen’s lifetime, she is tended to by her worker daughters, who feed and groom her. Such interactions provide possible horizontal transmission routes for pathogens from the workers to the queen, and as such a queen’s pathogen ...
Jessica L. Kevill +6 more
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Overwintering Honey Bee Colonies: Effect of Worker Age and Climate on the Hindgut Microbiota
Insects, 2021 Honey bee overwintering health is essential to meet the demands of spring pollination. Managed honey bee colonies are overwintered in a variety of climates, and increasing rates of winter colony loss have prompted investigations into overwintering ...
Patrick W. Maes +3 more
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Low-Temperature Stress during Capped Brood Stage Increases Pupal Mortality, Misorientation and Adult Mortality in Honey Bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are key pollinators, playing a vital role in ecosystem maintenance and stability of crop yields. Recently, reduced honey bee survival has attracted intensive attention.
Qing Wang +6 more
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The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2010 Understanding how sterile worker castes in social insects first evolved is one of the supreme puzzles in social evolution. Here, we show that in the bee tribe Allodapini, the earliest societies did not entail a foraging worker caste, but instead comprised females sharing a nest with supersedure of dominance.
Luke B. Chenoweth +5 more
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Reproduction of Distinct Varroa destructor Genotypes on Honey Bee Worker Brood
Insects, 2019 Honey bees play important roles in pollination for many crops and wild plants, but have been facing great threats posed by various pathogens and parasites.
Wenfeng Li +4 more
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Queens and Workers Contribute Differently to Adaptive Evolution in Bumble Bees and Honey Bees [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2017 Eusociality represents a major transition in evolution and is typified by cooperative brood care and reproductive division of labor between generations. In bees, this division of labor allows queens and workers to phenotypically specialize. Worker traits associated with helping are thought to be crucial to the fitness of a eusocial lineage, and recent ...
Martin Hasselmann +8 more
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Hemocyte-mediated phagocytosis differs between honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker castes.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Honey bees as other insects rely on the innate immune system for protection against diseases. The innate immune system includes the circulating hemocytes (immune cells) that clear pathogens from hemolymph (blood) by phagocytosis, nodulation or ...
Eva Marit Hystad +3 more
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Expression of hSP90 gene and its relationship with ambient temperature and foraging rate in apis mellifera meda [PDF]
مجله بیوتکنولوژی کشاورزی, 2021 Objective HSP90 is a member of heat shock proteins (HSPs) family which produces in response to environmental stress factors and has different roles in cells.
Salem Morammazi +1 more
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