honey bee
Is the salivary gland associated with honey bee recognition compounds in worker honey bees (Apis mellifera)?
... Samples Collection and Preparation All studies were conduct- ed during the summer of 2014 using four honey bee colonies maintained at the University of Salford apiary Manchester, UK. Worker bees of known ...
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Understanding honey bee worker sterility: a conceptual-empirical framework
... Candidate genes identified from microarray studies alone are typically those with the highest or most consistent expression differences. Network analysis, by contrast, builds upon these gene-list outputs to identify ...
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Virulence of mixed fungal infections in honey bee brood
... Mixed infections are expected to be common in nature and to act independently, synergistically, or antagonisti- cally. These interactions are often influenced by environ- mental conditions and by the order in which ...
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The Respiratory Currents in the Tracheal System of the Adult Honey Bee
... The propodeal spiracles of the honey-bee remain closed in normal air but in air plus CO2 they open as the abdomen contracts, and close as the abdomen expands.. The first thoracic spiracl[r] ...
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Massive Honey Bee Envenomation-Induced Rhabdomyolysis in an Adolescent
... Africanized honey bee into the southwestern states over the last 15 ...mass honey bee attacks on humans and pets abound in the lay press; however, scientific litera- ture concerning the ...
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The colony environment modulates sleep in honey bee workers
... Honey bees were derived from a mixture of European races of A. mellifera typical to Israel. We kept the colonies according to standard beekeeping techniques in the Bee Research Facility at the Edmond J. ...
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Computational and transcriptional evidence for microRNAs in the honey bee genome
... of honey bee official gene set genes in which intronic honey bee miRNAs are embedded ...in honey bees, we relied upon a compre- hensive set of computational orthologs described ...
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Honey bee neurogenomic responses to affiliative and agonistic social interactions
... brood care assay at two-time points, 30 and 120 min, were collected from two SDI colonies (also used in Experiment 1). H3K27ac ChIP-seq was performed as described in Reference 17 . Briefly, libraries of ...
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The evolution of honey bee dance communication: a mechanistic perspective
... Honey bee (Apis) dance communication is arguably the most lauded of all forms of animal ...a bee might convert a foraging trip to a functionally referential signal (sensu Blumstein, 1999), or how a ...
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Looking for the causes of and solutions to the issue of honey bee colony losses
... the bee colony [61, 62, ...of honey bee colony losses revealed the existence of mutualistic symbiosis between Varroa parasites and DWV, which is aimed at defeating the immune barriers of the host ...
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Honey bee viruses in Serbian colonies of different strength
... of honey bees is of great economic importance because of their role in ...with honey bee ...chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV), acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV) and sacbrood virus (SBV) ...
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Propolis counteracts some threats to honey bee health
... influence honey bee longevity via antioxidant-related pathways regards increased resistance to oxidative ...in honey bees [134–136] and are known to be influenced by the environmental conditions in ...
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Radioprotective action of venom of honey bee Apis mellifera Caucasica
... II. MATERIAL AND METHODS The material of the study was ecologically pure whole poison collected from bees from apiaries, located on ecologically clean territory of Azerbaijan and venom irradiated with small doses of ...
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In vivo and in vitro infection dynamics of honey bee viruses
... The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is commonly infected by multiple ...emerged honey bees and in the cell line AmE-711, derived from honey bee ...[sacbrood bee virus (SBV), deformed ...
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Report on the National Stakeholders Conference on Honey Bee Health
... U.S. honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies that began to be reported in 2006 as a condition named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the ...and bee hive management ...
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Host-parasite genotypic interactions in the honey bee: the dynamics of diversity
... of honey bee larvae whereas stonebrood is caused by ...of honey bees that also affects other hosts (Vojvodic et ...of honey bees despite Aspergillus infec- tions being known to kill ...
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Challenges and Prospects of Honey Bee Production in Ethiopia: A Review
... highest bee density and being the leading honey producer as well as one of the largest beeswax exporting countries in Africa, the products obtained from the subsector were still low as compared to the ...
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Oldest Varroa tolerant honey bee population provides insight into the origins of the global decline of honey bees
... the honey bee population in Fernando de Noronha has thus far evaded the catastrophic consequences of DWV and Varroa because the incredibly small and isolated population size ...
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Using DNA metabarcoding to identify the floral composition of honey: A new tool for investigating honey bee foraging preferences
... foraging. Honey bee nutritional needs are met by nectar, pol- len and water ...in honey bees although further research is required in this area [8 – ...in honey bees [1, 7, 13, ...
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Effects of cocaine on honey bee dance behaviour
... the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) as a natural bioassay to study the effect of cocaine on reward ...forager honey bees may perform highly stereotyped movements (dances) to signal the location and ...
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