Strong context‐dependent virulence in a host–parasite system: reconciling genetic evidence with theory

By Mark J. F. Brown, R. Schmid‐Hempel, P. Schmid-Hempel. 2003

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The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. (2011, background): “have strong negative effects on colony size and reproduction when infected colonies experience starvation or other stressful conditions (10, 11).”
Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite (2011, background): “This theoretical prediction would fit well with the horizontal transmission mode (39), weak effect on host mortality (40), but high reduction in host fecundity (16, 41) of the parasite C.”
Effects of parasitic mites and protozoa on the flower constancy and foraging rate of bumble bees (2005, unknown): “buchneri are usually considered relatively benign parasites (Schmid-Hempel 1998), perhaps because they do not appear to affect the survival of host colonies (Husband and Sinha 1970), or affect host fitness only during times of stress (Brown et al. 2000; Brown et al. 2003).”
Life histories and parasite pressure across the major groups of social insects. (2005, background): “, 2000) and established colonies (Shykoff and SchmidHempel, 1991), but which severely impedes colony foundation by the queen (Brown et al., 2003).”
A field experiment on the effect of Nosema bombi in colonies of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (2008, background): “Given these effects, the threat to bumblebee communities from N. bombi is likely to be greater than that of other colony-level parasites, such as Crithidia bombi , that have less severe effects on reproductive success ( Brown et al. , 2003 ).”
The Physiological and Genomic Bases of Bumble Bee Social Behaviour (2015, background): “For example, Crithidia bombi, a bumble bee parasite, had strong effect on survival and colony development: the pathogen was found to decrease the ability of queens to successfully establish a colony, colony size, number of males, and total fitness (Brown et al., 2003b).”
Plight of the bumble bee: Pathogen spillover from commercial to wild populations (2006, background): “Although our study focused only on infection of worker and male bees during the summer, wild bumble bee populations might suffer most from the damaging effects of C. bombi and N. bombi on the colony founding success of spring queens ( Brown et al., 2003; Fisher and Pomeroy, 1989).”
Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “if starvation is to be avoided (Beekman et al., 1998; Brown et al., 2003; Leather et al., 1993), 933 and flowers should be located relatively close geographically to hibernation sites.”
Mitigating the anthropogenic spread of bee parasites to protect wild pollinators (2015, unknown): “Schmid-Hempel (2001), Brown et al. (2003),”
Inbreeding depression and family variation in a social insect, Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2005, background): “During colony foundation, mortality of incipient colonies is high due to, for example, unfavorable weather conditions (Harder 1986, Sladen 1989, Pamilo and Crozier 1997) or parasitism ( Brown et al. 2003 ).”