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Data from: Covert deformed wing virus infections have long-term deleterious effects on honeybee foraging and survival
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Data from: Killing and replacing queen-laid eggs: low cost of worker policing in the honeybee
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Fragmented landscapes affect honeybee colony strength at diverse spatial scales in agro-ecological landscapes in Kenya
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Data from: Honeybee nutrition is linked to landscape composition
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Data from: Differences in spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity of flight control in the honeybees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera
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Metabolic rate shapes phenotypic covariance among physiological, behavioral, and life history traits in honeybees
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Data from: Short-term effects of controlled mating and selection on the genetic variance of honeybee populations
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Combined secondary compounds naturally found in nectars enhance honeybee cognition and survival
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Data from: Geographically widespread honeybee-gut symbiont subgroups show locally distinct antibiotic-resistant patterns
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Data from: Experimental evidence that honeybees depress wild insect densities in a flowering crop
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Estimating heritability in honeybees: comparison of three major methods based on empirical and simulated datasets
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Data from: Female developmental environment delays development of male honeybee (Apis mellifera)
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Data from: Multiple host-shifts by the emerging honeybee parasite, Varroa jacobsoni
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Data_Rcode for: American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks between disease and colony development
<p>Original data and analysis (R code) for the publication</p> <p>Stephan JG, De Miranda JR, Forsgren E. (2020). American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks between disease and colony development. BMC Ecology.</p>
Queen pheromone modulates the expression of epigenetic modifier genes in the brain of honeybee workers
<p>Pheromones are used by many insects to mediate social interactions. In the highly eusocial honeybee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) is involved in the regulation of the reproductive and other behaviour of workers. The molecular mechanisms by which QMP acts are largely unknown. Here we investigate how genes responsible for epigenetic modifications to DNA, RNA and histones respond to the presence of QMP in the environment. We show that several of these genes are upregulated in the honeybee brain when workers are exposed to artificial QMP. We propose that pheromonal communication systems, such as those used by social insects, evolved to respond to environmental signals by making use of existing epigenomic machineries.</p>
Data from: Perception of contextual size illusions by honeybees in restricted and unrestricted viewing conditions
How different visual systems process images and make perceptual errors can inform us about cognitive and visual processes. One of the strongest geometric errors in perception is a misperception of size depending on the size of surrounding objects, known as the Ebbinghaus or Titchener illusion. The ability to perceive the Ebbinghaus illusion appears to vary dramatically among vertebrate species, and even populations, but this may depend on whether the viewing distance is restricted. We tested whether honeybees perceive contextual size illusions, and whether errors in perception of size differed under restricted and unrestricted viewing conditions. When the viewing distance was unrestricted, there was an effect of context on size perception and thus, similar to humans, honeybees perceived contrast size illusions. However, when the viewing distance was restricted, bees were able to judge absolute size accurately and did not succumb to visual illusions, despite differing contextual information. Our results show that accurate size perception depends on viewing conditions, and thus may explain the wide variation in previously reported findings across species. These results provide insight into the evolution of visual mechanisms across vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, and suggest convergent evolution of a visual processing solution.
Data from: Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees
Honeybees maintain their colony throughout the cold winters, a strategy that enables them to make the most of early spring flowers. During this period, their activity is mostly limited to thermoregulation, while foraging and brood rearing are stopped. Less is known about seasonal changes to the essential task of defending the colony against intruders, which is regulated by the sting alarm pheromone. We studied the stinging responsiveness of winter bees exposed to this scent or a control (solvent). Surprisingly winter bees, while maintaining their responsiveness in control conditions, did not increase stinging frequency in response to the alarm pheromone. This was not due to the bees not perceiving the pheromone, as shown by calcium-imaging of the antennal lobes. Since the alarm pheromone is thought to act through an increase in brain serotonin levels, ultimately causing heightened defensiveness, we checked if serotonin treatments would affect the stinging behaviour of winter bees. Indeed, treated winter bees became more inclined to sting. Thus, we postulate that loss of responsiveness to the sting alarm pheromone is based on a partial or total disruption of the mechanism converting alarm pheromone perception into high serotonin levels in winter bees.
Data from: Neonicotinoids and ectoparasitic mites synergistically impact honeybees
The Western honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most important managed pollinator globally and has recently experienced unsustainably high colony losses. Synergistic interactions among stressors are believed to be primarily responsible. However, despite clear evidence of strong effect on honeybee longevity of widely-employed neonicotinoid insecticides and of the ubiquitous ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, no data exist to show synergistic effects between these two stressors. Even though neonicotinoids had no significant impact by themselves, we here show for the first time a synergistic time-lag interaction between mites and neonicotinoids that resulted in significantly reduced survival of long-lived winter honeybees. Even though these mites are potent vectors of viruses, the virus-insecticide interaction had no significant impact. The data suggest a previously overlooked mechanism possibly explaining recent unsustainably high losses of managed A. mellifera honeybee colonies in many regions of the world. Future mitigation efforts should concentrate on developing sustainable agro-ecosystem management schemes that incorporate reduced use of neonicotinoids and sustainable solutions for V. destructor mites.
Data from: Detecting rare asymmetrically methylated cytosines and decoding methylation patterns in the honeybee genome
Context-dependent gene expression in eukaryotes is controlled by several mechanisms including cytosine methylation that primarily occurs in the CG dinucleotides (CpGs). However, less frequent non-CpG asymmetric methylation has been found in various cell types, such as mammalian neurons, and recent results suggest that these sites can repress transcription independently of CpG contexts. In addition, an emerging view is that CpG hemimethylation may arise not only from deregulation of cellular processes but also be a standard feature of the methylome. Here, we have applied a novel approach to examine whether asymmetric CpG methylation is present in a sparsely methylated genome of the honeybee, a social insect with a high level of epigenetically driven phenotypic plasticity. By combining strand-specific ultra-deep amplicon sequencing of illustrator genes with whole-genome methylomics and bioinformatics, we show that rare asymmetrically methylated CpGs can be unambiguously detected in the honeybee genome. Additionally, we confirm differential methylation between two phenotypically and reproductively distinct castes, queens and workers, and offer new insight into the heterogeneity of brain methylation patterns. In particular, we challenge the assumption that symmetrical methylation levels reflect symmetry in the underlying methylation patterns and conclude that hemimethylation may occur more frequently than indicated by methylation levels. Finally, we question the validity of a prior study in which most of cytosine methylation in this species was reported to be asymmetric.
Data from: Impacts of honeybee density on crop yield: a meta-analysis
1. There is increasing recognition that pollination deficits are limiting crop yields worldwide. However, management strategies for optimal insect pollination are still unclear for most crops. Current management focuses on providing high densities of honeybees, but recommended densities are highly variable, even within single crops and cultivars. 2. We performed an extensive literature search to record honeybee densities (colony density and/or flower visitation rates) and crop productivity (fruit set, seed set, fruit weight, and/or yield). Effect sizes were represented as the difference in crop productivity between the two most extreme levels of honeybee densities. 3. Out of 795 reviewed studies, only 22 analysed the effect of at least two levels of honeybee densities on crop productivity (reporting 60 resulting effect sizes in total). Moreover, few recommendations for crop pollination management are based on results from controlled experimental designs, and with comparable methodology. 4. We found that both colony density and visitation rates increased all the productivity variables. However, effects were non-linear for visitation rates, suggesting that there is an optimum (mean of 8-10 visits per flower) beyond which more honeybees are not beneficial (or even detrimental) for crop productivity. 5. Effect sizes for visitation rates were greater than that for colony densities, suggesting that visitation rates are a more direct measure of the pollination process. Data on the relation between colony density and visitation rates are lacking. Interestingly, effect sizes for visitation rates were greater for crops with separate sexes than those with hermaphroditic flowers; therefore, the benefits of honeybee pollination vary according to the crop biology. 6. Synthesis and applications. Current practices for crop pollination assume that more honeybees are always better for crop yield, even if the effect of this management on crop production still unclear. In contrast, our analyses suggest that there is an optimum for honeybee densities. Despite the importance of honeybees and pollinator-dependent crops worldwide, there is a lack of studies designed for finding such an optimal level of crop pollination. Our analyses further suggest that visitation rates could be used as a proxy to guide management recommendations such as colony density and spatial arrangement.
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