Mondet, Fanny and Kim, Seo Hyun and Rodrigues De Miranda, Joachim and Beslay, Dominique and Le Conte, Yves and Mercer, Alison R.
(2016).
Specific cues associated with honey bee social defence against Varroa destructor infested brood.
Scientific Reports. 6
, 1-8
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Abstract
Social immunity forms an essential part of the defence repertoire of social insects. In response to infestation by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and its associated viruses, honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) have developed a specific behaviour (varroa-sensitive hygiene, or VSH) that helps protect the colony from this parasite. Brood cells heavily infested with mites are uncapped, the brood killed, and the cell contents removed. For this extreme sacrifice to be beneficial to the colony, the targeting of parasitized brood for removal must be accurate and selective. Here we show that varroa-infested brood produce uniquely identifiable cues that could be used by VSH-performing bees to identify with high specificity which brood cells to sacrifice. This selective elimination of mite-infested brood is a disease resistance strategy analogous to programmed cell death, where young bees likely to be highly dysfunctional as adults are sacrificed for the greater good of the colony.
Authors/Creators: | Mondet, Fanny and Kim, Seo Hyun and Rodrigues De Miranda, Joachim and Beslay, Dominique and Le Conte, Yves and Mercer, Alison R. | ||||||
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Title: | Specific cues associated with honey bee social defence against Varroa destructor infested brood | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Scientific Reports | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2016 | ||||||
Depositing date: | 24 October 2016 | ||||||
Volume: | 6 | ||||||
Page range: | 1-8 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||
Associated Programs and Other Stakeholders: | SLU - Research Areas for the Future > Future Animal Health and Welfare (until Jan 2017) | ||||||
ISSN: | 2045-2322 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Agris subject categories.: | L Animal production > L20 Animal ecology L Animal production > L72 Pests of animals | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Evolutionary Biology (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 403 Veterinary Science > Pathobiology (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Agricultural Science | ||||||
Agrovoc terms: | Apis mellifera, Varroa, hygiene, behavior, pest mites, honey bees | ||||||
Keywords: | freeze-killed brood, apis-mellifera, hygienic behavior, mite reproduction, sensitive hygiene, jacobsoni oud, colonies, responses, cells, pheromone | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3740 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3740 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 13734 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Ecology (S) > Dept. of Ecology | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 24 Oct 2016 13:16 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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