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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024

Investigating trade-offs between ovary activation and immune protein expression in bumble bee (

Alison McAfee, Abigail Chapman, Grace Bao, David R Tarpy, Leonard J Foster

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Elevated virus infection of honey bee queens reduces methyl oleate production and destabilizes colony-level social structure.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 authors.

Alison McAfeeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z4.ORCID 0000-0003-3523-6649
Abigail ChapmanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z4.ORCID 0000-0002-4574-6709
Grace BaoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z4.
David R TarpyDepartment of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8601-6094
Leonard J FosterDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z4.ORCID 0000-0001-8551-4817

Funding

BC Knowledge Development FundCanada Foundation for InnovationCenter for Blood Research TransitionGenome Canada/Genome BC projectL'Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence for a trade-off between reproduction and immunity has manifested in many animal species, including social insects. However, investigations in social insect queens present a conundrum: new gynes of many social hymenopterans, such as bumble bees and ants, must first mate, then transition from being solitary to social as they establish their nests, thus experiencing confounding shifts in environmental conditions. Worker bumble bees offer an opportunity to investigate patterns of immune protein expression associated with ovary activation while minimizing extraneous environmental factors and genetic differences. Here, we use proteomics to interrogate the patterns of immune protein expression of female bumble bees (

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AntsOvaryAnimalsBeesFemaleHemolymphPelvisReproductionbumble beesimmunityproteomicsreproductionresource allocationtrade-off

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PMID38264776
PMCPMC10806398

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