Prevalence of Nosema species infections in Apis cerana japonica and Apis mellifera honeybees in the Tohoku region of Japan
Prevalence of Nosema species infections in Apis cerana japonica and Apis mellifera honeybees in the Tohoku region of Japan
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日本东北地区中华蜜蜂和意大利蜜蜂中微孢子虫感染的流行情况
DOI:
10.1016/j.parint.2021.102361
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Tadashi Itagaki
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作者:
Shunsuke Takashima;Yuma Ohari;Tadashi Itagaki
We investigated here, the prevalence ofNosemamicrosporidia infections in the honeybees,Apis ceranajaponicaandApis mellifera, in the Tohoku region of Japan. We detectedNosema ceranaeDNA in 14 (2.8%) of 509A. cerana japonicaand in 34 (21.9%) of 155A. melliferahoneybees from Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Yamagata, and Fukushima prefectures.NosemaapisDNA was undetectable inA. cerana japonicaandA. mellifera. The unidentifiableNosemaspecies that genetically differed fromN. apis,N. ceranae, andN. neumanniin terms of small subunit (SSU) rDNA, large subunit rDNA, and internal transcribed spacer sequences was identified in 105 (20.6%) of 509A. cerana japonicaand in 1 (0.6%) of 155A. melliferahoneybees, and from Iwate prefecture. A phylogenetic tree based on SSU rDNA sequences showed that theNosemasp. belonged to the same clade asN. thomsonidetected in moth and solitary bees in North America andN. pieriaefound in cabbage butterfly in Turkey, which have not hitherto been detected in honeybees. The morphological characteristics of the spores should be analyzed to enable species identification of theNosemasp.