Diet effects on honeybee immunocompetence

By C. Alaux, François Ducloz, D. Crauser, Y. Le Conte. Biology Letters, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Floral abundance and resource quality influence pollinator choice (2016, background): “Larger bees generate and retain heat faster leading to earlier and more frequent 81 forage flights (Stone, 1993), they have greater diapause survival (Strohm and Linsenmair, 1997) and are better 82 able to cope with adverse conditions such as parasitism and disease (Alaux et al., 2010; Di Pasquale e”
Collective decision-making (2017, background): “This link between nutrition and immunocompetence has also been observed in honeybees [35].”
Honey bee colonies provided with natural forage have lower pathogen loads and higher overwinter survival than those fed protein supplements (2015, positive): “However,viralloadsarelowerinbees fed pollen than PS ( DeGrandi-Hoffman et al. 2010) perhaps because pollen feeding affects the expression of genes associated with metabolic and immune function (Alaux et al. 2010, 2011).”
Creating patches of native flowers facilitates crop pollination in large agricultural fields: mango as a case study (2012, background): “The beneficial effect of plant diversity might arise because a diversity of food resources is important for flower visitor health (Müller & Kuhlmann 2008; Alaux et al. 2010), and can also improve stability of pollinator assemblages (Ebeling et al.”
Frontiers inEcology and the Environment From research to action : enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators (2014, background): “…pollen from a variety of plant species (Tasei and Aupinel 2008; Eckhardt et al. 2014) because mono-floral diets could include toxic compounds (Boppré et al. 2005) and may lack one or more essential nutrients (Roulston and Cane 2000), which can lead to an impaired immune system (Alaux et al. 2010).”
Providing foraging resources for solitary bees on farmland: current schemes for pollinators benefit a limited suite of species (2017, background): “Moreover, a reduction in the diversity of pollen sources can have negative impacts on bee fitness through reduced development and immunocompetence (Alaux et al. 2010).”
Pollen nutrients better explain bumblebee colony development than pollen diversity (2017, background): “This has been demonstrated in the immune system of the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) (Alaux et al., 2010) and their tolerance of parasites (Di Pasquale et al., 2013).”
Standard methods for maintaining adult Apis mellifera in cages under in vitro laboratory conditions (2013, methodology): “be used when maintaining adult workers in the laboratory Additional materials, such as comb or wax foundation (e.g. Czekońska, 2007) and plastic devices for releasing queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) (e.g. Alaux et al., 2010), are sometimes used to provide more realistic conditions to honey bees.”
Bee Food: The Chemistry and Nutritional Value of Nectar, Pollen and Mixtures of the Two (2011, background): “Interactions between these various factors are likely: for example, nutritional stress, due to a lack of floral resources or their poor quality, may lower the tolerance of bees to pesticides and diseases (Wahl & Ulm 1983; Alaux et al. 2010).”
The carry‐over effects of pollen shortage decrease the survival of honeybee colonies in farmlands (2017, background): “These stressors may be especially important in environments where pollen quality is also low (e.g. Alaux et al. 2010).”
Pollen nutrition affects honey bee stress resistance (2012, background): “In a more recent study, Alaux et al. (2010) showed that polyfl oral pollen enhanced immune functions (especially glucose oxidase activity) compared with monofl oral diets, suggesting that diversity in fl oral resources provides bees with better in-hive antiseptic protection.”
Standard methods for Nosema research (2013, background): “Because Nosema interacts with pesticides (Alaux et al., 2010a), colonies likely to be exposed to high levels of agro-chemicals, such as those pollinating agricultural crops, should not be used.”
Weeds for bees? A review (2015, background): “Once considered as a syndrome explaining bee decline, especially winter loss, recent work eventually led to a new paradigm: bee decline results from a complex set of interacting drivers (Ratnieks and Carreck 2010; Di Pasquale et al. 2013; Alaux et al. 2010; VanEngelsdorp et al. 2009;Potts et al. 201”