Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health.
Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health.
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10.3390/insects8020048
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发表时间：
2017-05-08
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3
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Tarpy DR
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作者：
Amiri E;Strand MK;Rueppell O;Tarpy DR
西方蜜蜂，Apis mellifera，生活在高度社会化的群体中，每个群体通常由一个女王领导。在一个健康的蜂群中，女王是唯一的生殖雌性，因为蜂群的长期生存取决于她产生大量后代的能力，女王的健康对蜂群的成功至关重要。蜜蜂最近经历了相当大的群体健康下降。在许多已知的影响群体健康的生物和非生物因素中，疾病和蜂王失败被反复报道为导致群体损失的重要因素。令人惊讶的是，关于蜜蜂疾病和蜂王质量之间的关系和相互作用的研究相对较少。关键是要了解害虫和病原体对蜂王健康的负面影响，蜂王问题如何可能导致疾病，以及这两个因素如何影响蜂群健康。在这里，我们回顾了目前的文献蜂王生殖潜力和蜜蜂寄生虫和病原体对蜂王的影响。最后，我们强调了我们对疾病和女王失败的结合的知识的差距，以提供一个视角，并优先考虑进一步的研究，以减轻疾病，提高女王质量，并确保殖民地的健康。
Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce a large number of offspring, queen health is essential for colony success. Honey bees have recently been experiencing considerable declines in colony health. Among a number of biotic and abiotic factors known to impact colony health, disease and queen failure are repeatedly reported as important factors underlying colony losses. Surprisingly, there are relatively few studies on the relationship and interaction between honey bee diseases and queen quality. It is critical to understand the negative impacts of pests and pathogens on queen health, how queen problems might enable disease, and how both factors influence colony health. Here, we review the current literature on queen reproductive potential and the impacts of honey bee parasites and pathogens on queens. We conclude by highlighting gaps in our knowledge on the combination of disease and queen failure to provide a perspective and prioritize further research to mitigate disease, improve queen quality, and ensure colony health.