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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Elevated virus infection of honey bee queens reduces methyl oleate production and destabilizes colony-level social structure.

Alison McAfee, Abigail Chapman, Armando Alcazar Magaña, Katie E Marshall, Shelley E Hoover, David R Tarpy, Leonard J Foster

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. 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 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Honey bee queen pheromone provides an early warning system to prevent collapsing colonies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alison McAfeeMichael Smith Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3523-6649
Abigail ChapmanMichael Smith Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4574-6709
Armando Alcazar MagañaMichael Smith Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4731-0247
Katie E MarshallDepartment of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6991-4957
Shelley E HooverDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K3M4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9462-7039
David R TarpyDepartment of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607.
Leonard J FosterMichael Smith Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8551-4817

Funding

BC Knowledge Development Fund NACanada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) NAGenome British Columbia (Genome BC) 374PROResults-Driven Agricultural Research NAUBC Life Sciences Institute NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogenic threats to reproductive individuals pose a profound challenge to the stability of insect societies. In honey bees (

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Oleic AcidsAnimalsBeesDicistroviridaeFemaleOvaryPheromonesReproductionRNA VirusesSocial Behaviormethyl oleateOleic AcidsPheromoneslipid traffickingpheromonesqueen–virus interactionsreproductionsupersedure

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PMID41086214
PMCPMC12557728

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