ArticleJournal of invertebrate pathology2017
Larvae act as a transient transmission hub for the prevalent bumblebee parasite Crithidia bombi.
Article in Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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
18 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microbial Evolution in Allodapine Bees: Perspectives From Trophallactic, Socially Plastic Pollinators.Evolutionary applications · 2025Review
- The trypanosomatid (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) parasites in bees: A review on their environmental circulation, impacts and implications.Current research in insect science · 2025Review
- Pollen as Bee Medicine: Is Prevention Better than Cure?Biology · 2023Article
- Microbiome assembly and maintenance across the lifespan of bumble bee workers.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite.Biology · 2022Article
- Modeling scale up of anthropogenic impacts from individual pollinator behavior to pollination systems.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2021Article
- Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Article
- Replicative Deformed Wing Virus Found in the Head of Adults from Symptomatic Commercial Bumblebee (Veterinary sciences · 2021Article
- Agri-environment scheme nectar chemistry can suppress the social epidemiology of parasites in an important pollinator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Viral load, not food availability or temperature, predicts colony longevity in an invasive eusocial wasp with plastic life history.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Functional traits linked to pathogen prevalence in wild bee communities.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Article
- Individual and combined impacts of sulfoxaflor andProceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Susceptibility of Red Mason Bee Larvae to Bacterial Threats Due to Microbiome Exchange with Imported Pollen Provisions.Insects · 2020Article
- Floral Traits Predict Frequency of Defecation on Flowers by Foraging Bumble Bees.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2019Article
- Review
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Disease transmission networks are key for understanding parasite epidemiology. Within the social insects, structured contact networks have been suggested to limit the spread of diseases to vulnerable members of their society, such as the queen or brood. However, even these complex social structures do not provide complete protection, as some diseases, which are transmitted by workers during brood care, can still infect the brood. Given the high rate of feeding interactions that occur in a social insect colony, larvae may act as disease transmission hubs. Here we use the bumblebee Bombus terrestris and its parasite Crithidia bombi to determine the role of brood in bumblebee disease transmission networks. Larvae that were artificially inoculated with C. bombi showed no signs of infection seven days after inoculation. However, larvae that received either an artificial inoculation or a contaminated feed from brood-caring workers were able to transmit the parasite to naive workers. These results suggest that the developing brood is a potential route of intracolonial disease transmission and should be included when considering social insect disease transmission networks.
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.