Honey bee hygienic behavior and defense against Varroa jacobsoni

Spivak, Marla

doi:10.1051/apido:19960407

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“…This shows that, as expected (Rothenbuhler, 1964) a breeding programme can result in very high levels of hygiene, especially when mating control is exercised over both the males and females (Spivak, 1996).…”

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The effect of one generation of controlled mating on the expression of hygienic behaviour in honey bees

Bigio

Toufailia

Hughes

et al. 2014

Journal of Apicultural Research

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SummaryHoney bee mating cannot be directly controlled in the same way as in many agriculturally important animals. Instrumental insemination is, however, possible and can be used as an aid in selective breeding. Hygienic behaviour, in which worker bees detect and remove dead or diseased brood from capped cells, is a heritable trait that confers colony-level resistance against brood diseases. Using the freeze-killed brood (FKB) bioassay we compared the levels of hygiene in colonies headed by daughter queens reared from hygienic mother colonies that were either instrumentally inseminated with sperm from drones reared from hygienic colonies or allowed to mate naturally with naturally-occurring drones. Hygiene levels were significantly higher in the colonies of the instrumentally inseminated queens than in the colonies of the naturallymated queens. However, the hygiene levels in the naturally-mated colonies were encouragingly high and indicate that supplying beekeepers with naturally-mated queens, or virgin queens to mate locally, can result in colonies with high levels of hygiene.El efecto de una generación de apareamiento controlado sobre la expresión del comportamiento higiénico en las abejas melíferas Resumen El apareamiento de la abeja de la miel no puede ser controlado directamente de la misma forma que se hace en muchos animales de importancia agrícola. La inseminación instrumental es, sin embargo, posible y puede ser utilizada como ayuda en la cría selectiva. El comportamiento higiénico, en el que las abejas obreras detectan y eliminan la cría muerta o enferma de las celdas operculadas, es un rasgo hereditario que confiere resistencia al nivel de colonia contra enfermedades de la cría. Utilizando el bioensayo de congelar la cría para matarla (BCM) se compararon los niveles de higiene en las colonias gobernadas por hijas de reinas criadas en colonias madre higiénicas que fueron inseminadas instrumentalmente con esperma de zánganos criados de colonias higiénicas o a las que se dejó aparearse naturalmente con zánganos de origen natural. Los niveles de higiene fueron significativamente mayores en las colonias de las reinas inseminadas instrumentalmente que en las colonias de las reinas apareadas naturalmente. Sin embargo, los niveles de higiene en las colonias que se aparearon naturalmente fueron alentadoramente altos e indican que suministrar a los apicultores reinas apareadas naturalmente, o reinas vírgenes para que se apareen localmente, puede dar lugar a colonias con altos niveles de higiene.

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The effect of one generation of controlled mating on the expression of hygienic behaviour in honey bees

Bigio

Toufailia

Hughes

et al. 2014

Journal of Apicultural Research

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“…Adult In the third study (M.E. Arechavaleta, unpublished data), the methods were similar to the ones used by Guzmán-Novoa et al [17] In the United States, Spivak [33] and Spivak and Reuter [34] reported that colonies selected for hygienic behavior had lower mite levels than non-hygienic ones in some experiments. However Looking for factors to explain the bee's tolerance to V. jacobsoni in Mexico, two independent studies [17,35] showed that European bee brood was twice as attractive to the mites as Africanized brood.…”

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Susceptibility of European and Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) to Varroa jacobsoni Oud. in Mexico

Guzmán-Novoa

Vandame²,

Arechavaleta³

1999

Apidologie

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-The knowledge generated from several studies conducted in Mexico on the susceptibility of European and Africanized honey bees to Varroa jacobsoni is reviewed and compared with the situation in Brazil. There is evidence of genotypic variation for mite population growth, and for tolerance to the mite in honey bee colonies located in Mexico. However, Mexican honey bees seem to be relatively less tolerant to the parasite than bees in Brazil. The main difference is that mite fertility rates in Mexico are higher than those reported from Brazil. Hypotheses for why the situation is different in Mexico than in Brazil are discussed. © Inra/DIB/AGIB/Elsevier, Paris Varroa jacobsoni / tolerance / Apis mellifera / Africanized bee / Mexico

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“…Sensitivity to these olfactory cues are enhanced by the neuromodulator octopamine , and amazingly workers can recognize odors specific to infested brood though the wax capping that is laid down over the comb when bee larvae pupate (Gramacho and Spivak, 2003;Spivak, 1996). When a diseased individual is detected, the workers collectively uncap the brood cell, pull the pupae out of the brood nest, and dispose it of outside the colony (Boecking and Spivak, 1999).…”

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Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

Amdam¹,

Seehuus²

2006

Advances in Cancer Research

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Animal models contribute to the understanding of molecular mechanism of cancer, revealing complex roles of altered cellular-signaling networks and deficient surveillance systems. Analogous pathologies are documented in an unconventional model organism that receives attention in research on systems theory, evolution, and aging. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) colony is an advanced integrative unit, a "superorganism" in which order is controlled via complex signaling cascades and surveillance schemes. A facultatively sterile caste, the workers, regulates patterns of growth, differentiation, homeostasis, and death. Workers differentiate into temporal phenotypes in response to dynamic social cues; chemosensory signals that can translate into dramatic physiological responses, including programmed cell death. Temporal worker forms function together, and effectively identify and terminate abnormal colony members ranging from embryos to adults. As long as this regulatory system is operational at a colony level, the unit survives and propagates. However, if the worker phenotypes that collectively govern order become too few or change into malignant forms that bypass control mechanisms to replicate aberrantly; order is replaced by disorder that ultimately leads to the destruction of the society. In this chapter we describe fundamental properties of honeybee social organization, and explore conditions that lead to states of disorder. Our hope is that this chapter will be an inspirational source for ongoing and future work in the field of cancer research.

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Honey bee hygienic behavior and defense against Varroa jacobsoni

Cited by 230 publications

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The effect of one generation of controlled mating on the expression of hygienic behaviour in honey bees

The effect of one generation of controlled mating on the expression of hygienic behaviour in honey bees

Susceptibility of European and Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) to Varroa jacobsoni Oud. in Mexico

Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

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