ArticleBiology letters2016
Genetic diversity confers colony-level benefits due to individual immunity.
Article in Biology letters, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Direct evidence for increased disease resistance in polyandrous broods exists only in eusocial Hymenoptera.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Pooled it
- Varroa destructor mite population dynamics in africanized honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies in a semi-arid region.Experimental & applied acarology · 2024Review
- Sociality and disease: behavioral perspectives in ecological and evolutionary immunology.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2022Article
- Experimental increase of worker diversity benefits brood production in ants.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Intra-Colonial Viral Infections in Western Honey Bees (Microorganisms · 2021Article
- American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks.BMC ecology · 2020Article
- Behavioral Genetics of the Interactions betweenInsects · 2019Article
- Article
- Article
- Glyphosate affects the larval development of honey bees depending on the susceptibility of colonies.PloS one · 2018Article
- Virus and dsRNA-triggered transcriptional responses reveal key components of honey bee antiviral defense.Scientific reports · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Several costs and benefits arise as a consequence of eusociality and group-living. With increasing group size, spread of disease among nest-mates poses selective pressure on both individual immunity and group-level mechanisms of disease resistance (social immunity). Another factor known to influence colony-level expression of disease is intracolony genetic diversity, which in honeybees (Apis mellifera) is a direct function of the number of mates of the queen. Colonies headed by queens with higher mating numbers have less variable infections of decreased intensity, though the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. By pathogen-challenging larvae in vitro, we decoupled larval immune response from mechanisms of social immunity. Our results show that baseline immunity and degree of immune response do not vary with genetic diversity. However, intracolony variance in antimicrobial peptide production after pathogen challenge decreases with increasing genetic diversity. This reduction in variability of the larval immune response could drive the mitigation of disease observed in genetically diverse colonies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.