The Influence of Pollen Feeding and Brood Rearing on the Length of Life and Physiological Condition of the Honeybee Preliminary Report

Maurizio, A.; Hodges, F. E. D.

doi:10.1080/0005772x.1950.11094617

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“…As described by Maurizio (1950) and Omholt and Amdam (2004), workers were characterized as diutinus workers in the absence of brood (i.e., egg, larvae, and pupae), whereas postwintering nurses and post-wintering foragers were obtained within 2 weeks after the colonies initiated brood rearing after the winter dearth. To control for effects of absolute age and season, 8-day-old nurse bees and 20-day-old foragers were collected from the same host colonies in June 2004.…”

Section: Beesmentioning

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“…Worker bees, however, can become foragers as early as 4-7 days after adult emergence (reviewed by Amdam and Omholt, 2002), and they can also enter the stress-resistant diutinus stage formerly referred to as the "winter bee" phenotype (Omholt and Amdam, 2004) that enables them to survive for 8-10 months (Maurizio, 1950;Sekiguchi and Sakagami, 1966). Adult worker bees of the North European A. mellifera spp.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Adult worker bees of the North European A. mellifera spp. carnica and mellifera enter the diutinus stage when brood (eggs, larvae, and pupae) are removed from their colonies (Maurizio, 1950;Fluri et al, 1982;Amdam et al, 2004bAmdam et al, , 2005b. Thus, in temperate regions this survival stage develops in late fall when brood-reading comes to a natural halt (Fluri and Imdorf, 1989).…”

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Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age

Seehuus

Krekling

Amdam

2006

Experimental Gerontology

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Accumulation of oxidative stress-induced damage in brain tissue plays an important role in the pathogenesis of normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Neuronal oxidative damage typically increases with age in humans, and also in the invertebrate and vertebrate model species most commonly used in aging research. By use of quantitative immunohistochemistry and Western blot, we show that this aspect of brain senescence is largely decoupled from chronological age in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). The bee is a eusocial insect characterized by the presence of a reproductive queen caste and a caste of functionally sterile female workers that performs various alloparental tasks such as nursing and foraging. We studied patterns of oxidative nitration and carbonylation damage in the brain of worker bees that performed nurse tasks as 8-and 200-day-olds and foraging tasks as 20-and 200-day-olds. In addition, we examined 180-day-old diutinus bees, a stress-resistant temporal worker form that survives unfavorable periods. Our results indicate that nitration damage occurs only at low levels in vivo, but that a 60-kDa protein from honey bee brain is selectively nitrated by peroxynitrite in vitro. Oxidative carbonylation is present at varying levels in the visual and chemosensory neuropiles of worker bees, and this inter-individual variation is better explained by social role than by chronological age.

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Section: Beesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age

Seehuus

Krekling

Amdam

2006

Experimental Gerontology

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“…The extraordinarily plastic nature of honey bee life history and aging has 69 recently made this eusocial insect a model organism for the study of senescence 70 regions and can live 6-8 months (Maurizio, 1950). Additionally, worker aging is 77 not entirely chronological.…”

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Genotype effect on lifespan following vitellogenin knockdown

Ihle

Fondrk

Page

et al. 2015

Experimental Gerontology

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32Honey bee workers display remarkable flexibility in the aging process. 33This plasticity is closely tied to behavioral maturation. Workers who initiate 34 foraging behavior at earlier ages have shorter lifespans, and much of the 35 variation in total lifespan can be explained by differences in pre-foraging lifespan. 36Vitellogenin (Vg), a yolk precursor protein, influences worker lifespan both as a 37 regulator of behavioral maturation and through anti-oxidant and immune 38 functions. Experimental reduction of Vg mRNA, and thus Vg protein levels, in 39 wild-type bees results in precocious foraging behavior, decreased lifespan, and 40 increased susceptibility to oxidative damage. We sought to separate the effects 41 of Vg on lifespan due to behavioral maturation from those due to immune and 42 antioxidant function using two selected strains of honey bees that differ in their 43 phenotypic responsiveness to Vg gene knockdown. Surprisingly, we found that 44 lifespans lengthen in the strain described as behaviorally and hormonally 45 insensitive to Vg reduction. We then performed targeted gene expression 46 analyses on genes hypothesized to mediate aging and lifespan: the insulin-like 47 peptides (Ilp1 and 2) and manganese superoxide dismutase (mnSOD). The two 48 honey bee Ilps are the most upstream components in the insulin-signaling 49 pathway, which influences lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster and other 50 organisms., while manganese superoxide dismutase encodes an enzyme with 51 antioxidant functions in animals. We found expression differences in the llps in fat 52 body related to behavior (llp1 and 2) and genetic background (Ilp2), but did not 53 find strain by treatment effects. Expression of mnSOD was also affected by 54 behavior and genetic background. Additionally, we observed a differential 55 response to Vg knockdown in fat body expression of mnSOD, suggesting that 56 antioxidant pathways may partially explain the strain-specific lifespan responses 57 to Vg knockdown. 58 59

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“…Adult bees, particularly those that are newly emerged and experiencing continued organ and glandular development and growth of fat bodies can experience poor development and decreased longevity due to diets low in pollen (Maurizio and Hodges, 1950). Also, drones that experience low-pollen conditions during the first few days of adulthood take longer to reach sexual maturity or do not reach it at all (Free and Williams, 1975).…”

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Weight of evidence evaluation of a network of adverse outcome pathways linking activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in honey bees to colony death

LaLone

Villeneuve

Wu‐Smart

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

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The Influence of Pollen Feeding and Brood Rearing on the Length of Life and Physiological Condition of the Honeybee Preliminary Report

Cited by 146 publications

References 6 publications

Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age

Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age

Genotype effect on lifespan following vitellogenin knockdown

Weight of evidence evaluation of a network of adverse outcome pathways linking activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in honey bees to colony death

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