Quality of royal jelly produced by Africanized honeybees fed a supplemented diet

Sereia, Maria Josiane; Toledo, Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de

doi:10.1590/s0101-20612013005000039

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“…Having a quality queen also means greater production of eggs which in turn will strengthen the colony optimizing production [47]. Sereia and Toledo [48] reported that there was genetic effect in the royal jelly production and concluded that descendants of other best royal jelly producing colonies presented higher number of accepted larvae and larger amount of royal jelly deposited by cup.…”

Section: Chronology Of Selection For Royal Jelly Productionmentioning

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Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Ostrovski-Tomporoski¹,

Faquinello²,

MartinsCosta-Maia³

et al. 2016

Beekeeping and Bee Conservation - Advances in Research

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This research was carried out to infer the genetic value to produce royal jelly in Africanized Apis mellifera L. honeybees with the compilation of data collected from 2006 to 2011. Genetic information of the selected and accessed colonies was obtained using the total DNA extraction techniques of nurse honeybees' thorax with molecular markers for MRJP3 protein and characterized in Apis mellifera L. From the information on the colonies and genealogical structure were predicted genetic values of the colonies and queens for the larvae acceptance trait (%), royal jelly per colony (g), and royal jelly per cup (mg). Animal model with Bayesian Inference was used from Multiple Trait Gibbs Sampling software in Animal Models, Gibbs chains 58,500 cycles resulting from 650,000 cycles with intervals and disposal of 65,000 and 10 withdraw, respectively. From the predicted values, the colonies were classified into upper and lower. To compare the average of the genetic values according to the genotypes, the average multiple comparison tests were proceeded and implemented in routine PROC GENMOD from the Statistical Analysis System. Environmental effects were considered, time and hive type (standard Langstroth) as having flat distribution and collection as chi-square distribution. The studies presented an increase in the alleles C and D and the alleles D and E-referring to MRJPs-found in the highest genetic value for royal jelly production. Alleles D, E, and C are important when evaluating the parameters larvae acceptance, royal jelly per colony, and royal jelly per cup and, occasionally, it was the DE genotype that stood out royal jelly production. Genotypes DE, DC, and EC are those that should be kept in this evaluation system for royal jelly production, and the other genotypes should be discarded because they had the worst performance for the parameters evaluated.

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Section: Chronology Of Selection For Royal Jelly Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Ostrovski-Tomporoski¹,

Faquinello²,

MartinsCosta-Maia³

et al. 2016

Beekeeping and Bee Conservation - Advances in Research

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“…One of the great barriers of beekeeping is the cold and dry season, when the supply of floral resources in the environment decreases, causing a decrease in the development of the colonies [16]. Some of the alternatives for this period are the supplementation of the colonies [17] and the planting of melliferous flora [18] [19]. Among the species used for flowering in the winter period is the Dombeya wallichii.…”

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Foraging Behaviour of Apis mellifera L. and Scaptotrigona bipunctata on Dombeya wallichii Flowers in Southern Brazil

Puentes¹,

Lopez²,

Galhardo³

et al. 2019

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This research was carried out to evaluate the foraging behaviour of Apis mellifera and Scaptotrigona bipunctata and its relationship with environmental variables in Dombeya wallichii considering the following aspects: 1) Type of resource harvested, 2) Visitation rate, 3) Length of visit, 4) sugar concentration in the stored nectar in the honey crop of A. mellifera and secreted by the flower and 5) floral constancy. Both species collected mainly nectar, with a visitation rate of 4.2 flowers for A. mellifera and 1.1 flowers for S. bipunctata and visit length of 9.2 and 34.2 seconds, respectively. The sugar concentration had a positive relationship with temperature and luminosity, with mean values of 12.3% in the nectar and 14.2% in the honey crop. Bees were classified by specialists because the pollen of D. wallichii was predominant in the pollen basket, but the pollen of Emilia sonchifolia and Raphanus sativus was also found. These results suggest that the species under study take advantage of the resources offered by D. wallichii, therefore, this species is an important source for the maintenance of the bees in the season of lack of food.

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“…The object of this study was to appraise the effects of Royal Jelly on biological and morphological traits of Trichogramma brassicae Bezdenko (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) because not only is RJ important for its remarkable nutritional properties, but also for its functional and biological features [9,11,14].…”

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The effect of royal jelly on some biological and morphological characteristics of Trichogramma brassicae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Farsı¹,

Shahkouyi²,

Nozarı³

et al. 2019

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The feeding of parasitoid wasps is a forcible factor in ensuring the efficiency of biological control agents. The quality of natural resources can affect different aspects of morphology, biology and physiology of parasitoids which are linked to their fitness and fecundity. The logic behind the experiment was to study the effect of different concentrations of royal jelly (RJ) solution, on the biology of Trichogramma brassicae Bezdenko (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) with focus on rate of parasitism and morphology traits (wing size and shape variation) under laboratory conditions. Results showed that feeding with 0.5% gml -1 royal jelly/honey water solution have increased rate of parasitism (mean= 75.06%± SE 6.03, n=15). The lowest rate of parasitism occurred in females fed without RJ (mean= 46.26%± SE 8.03, n=15). There were significant differences in weight matrices as shape variables, but according to independent sample t-test, we did not find any significant difference in centroid size (as size variable). Enhancing nutritional supplements has been able to influence some biological characteristics of T. brassicae. We argue that there was beneficial effect in royal jelly on morphological and biological traits in parasitoid wasp.

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Quality of royal jelly produced by Africanized honeybees fed a supplemented diet

Cited by 11 publications

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Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Foraging Behaviour of <i>Apis mellifera</i> L. and <i>Scaptotrigona bipunctata</i> on <i>Dombeya wallichii</i> Flowers in Southern Brazil

The effect of royal jelly on some biological and morphological characteristics of Trichogramma brassicae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

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Quality of royal jelly produced by Africanized honeybees fed a supplemented diet

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Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Foraging Behaviour of &lt;i&gt;Apis mellifera&lt;/i&gt; L. and &lt;i&gt;Scaptotrigona bipunctata&lt;/i&gt; on &lt;i&gt;Dombeya wallichii&lt;/i&gt; Flowers in Southern Brazil

The effect of royal jelly on some biological and morphological characteristics of Trichogramma brassicae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

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Foraging Behaviour of <i>Apis mellifera</i> L. and <i>Scaptotrigona bipunctata</i> on <i>Dombeya wallichii</i> Flowers in Southern Brazil