Missing microbes in bees: how systematic depletion of key symbionts erodes immunity

BA Daisley, JA Chmiel, AP Pitek, GJ Thompson… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Pesticide exposure, infectious disease, and nutritional stress contribute to honey bee
mortality and a high rate of colony loss. This realization has fueled a decades-long …

Understanding the effects of sublethal pesticide exposure on honey bees: a role for probiotics as mediators of environmental stress

JA Chmiel, BA Daisley, AP Pitek… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Managed populations of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) support the production of
a global food supply. This important role in modern agriculture has rendered honey bees …

Lactobacillus spp. attenuate antibiotic-induced immune and microbiota dysregulation in honey bees

BA Daisley, AP Pitek, JA Chmiel, S Gibbons… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Widespread antibiotic usage in apiculture contributes substantially to the global
dissemination of antimicrobial resistance and has the potential to negatively influence …

Pesticide–virus interactions in honey bees: challenges and opportunities for understanding drivers of bee declines

GP Harwood, AG Dolezal - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Honey bees are key agricultural pollinators, but beekeepers continually suffer high annual
colony losses owing to a number of environmental stressors, including inadequate nutrition …

Imbalance of gut microbiota and fecal metabolites in offspring female mice induced by nitenpyram exposure during pregnancy

S Yan, S Tian, Z Meng, J Yan, M Jia, R Li, Z Zhou… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous exposure to the neonicotinoid insecticide nitenpyram has raised concerns about
its potential toxicity. In this study, we explored its health effects on the female offspring of …

Temporospatial modulation of Lymantria dispar immune system against an entomopathogenic fungal infection

J Bai, Z Xu, L Li, W Ma, L Xu, L Ma - Pest Management Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Lymantria dispar is an economically impactful forest pest worldwide. The
entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana shows great promise in pest management due …

Odorant receptor phylogeny confirms conserved channels for sex pheromone and host plant signals in tortricid moths

F Gonzalez, F Borrero‐Echeverry… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The search for mates and food is mediated by volatile chemicals. Insects sense food
odorants and sex pheromones through odorant receptors (ORs) and pheromone receptors …

Fourteen steps to relevance: taking probiotics from the bench to the consumer

G Reid - Canadian journal of microbiology, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Much is made of the need to translate scientific research into improved care of people or
other life forms. Grant applications invariably start with the extent of a problem and end by …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics for honey bees-the bittersweet truth

B Daisley, G Reid - Microbiology, 2020 - communities.springernature.com
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