ArticleInsects2021
Overwintering Honey Bee Colonies: Effect of Worker Age and Climate on the Hindgut Microbiota.
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- Bees just wanna have fungi: a review of bee associations with nonpathogenic fungi.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Review
- Social Interaction is Unnecessary for Hindgut Microbiome Transmission in Honey Bees: The Effect of Diet and Social Exposure on Tissue-Specific Microbiome Assembly.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
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- Developing Strategies to Help Bee Colony Resilience in Changing Environments.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Micro"bee"ota: Honey Bee Normal Microbiota as a Part of Superorganism.Microorganisms · 2022Review
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- Recent Advances in the Biocontrol of Nosemosis in Honey Bees (Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Honey bee overwintering health is essential to meet the demands of spring pollination. Managed honey bee colonies are overwintered in a variety of climates, and increasing rates of winter colony loss have prompted investigations into overwintering management, including indoor climate controlled overwintering. Central to colony health, the worker hindgut gut microbiota has been largely ignored in this context. We sequenced the hindgut microbiota of overwintering workers from both a warm southern climate and controlled indoor cold climate. Congruently, we sampled a cohort of known chronological age to estimate worker longevity in southern climates, and assess age-associated changes in the core hindgut microbiota. We found that worker longevity over winter in southern climates was much lower than that recorded for northern climates. Workers showed decreased bacterial and fungal load with age, but the relative structure of the core hindgut microbiome remained stable. Compared to cold indoor wintering, collective microbiota changes in the southern outdoor climate suggest compromised host physiology. Fungal abundance increased by two orders of magnitude in southern climate hindguts and was positively correlated with non-core, likely opportunistic bacteria. Our results contribute to understanding overwintering honey bee biology and microbial ecology and provide insight into overwintering strategies.
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