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Pollen extracts and constituent sugars increase growth of a trypanosomatid parasite of bumble bees.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pollen chemical and mechanical defences restrict host-plant use by bees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- High temperatures augment inhibition of parasites by a honey bee gut symbiont.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Differential bumble bee gene expression associated with pathogen infection and pollen diet.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Pollen as Bee Medicine: Is Prevention Better than Cure?Biology · 2023Article
- Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite.Biology · 2022Article
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- Host density drives viral, but not trypanosome, transmission in a key pollinator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- From plant fungi to bee parasites: mycorrhizae and soil nutrients shape floral chemistry and bee pathogens.Ecology · 2019Article
- Medicinal value of sunflower pollen against bee pathogens.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Phytochemicals produced by plants, including at flowers, function in protection against plant diseases, and have a long history of use against trypanosomatid infection. Floral nectar and pollen, the sole food sources for many species of insect pollinators, contain phytochemicals that have been shown to reduce trypanosomatid infection in bumble and honey bees when fed as isolated compounds. Nectar and pollen, however, consist of phytochemical mixtures, which can have greater antimicrobial activity than do single compounds. This study tested the hypothesis that pollen extracts would inhibit parasite growth. Extracts of six different pollens were tested for direct inhibitory activity against cell cultures of the bumble bee trypanosomatid gut parasite
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