Does infection by Nosema ceranae cause “Colony Collapse Disorder” in honey bees (Apis mellifera)?
Does infection by Nosema ceranae cause “Colony Collapse Disorder” in honey bees (Apis mellifera)?
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DOI：
10.3896/ibra.1.49.1.11
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发表时间：
2010-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
R. Paxton
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作者：
R. Paxton
摘要 蜜蜂微孢子虫 (Nosema ceranae) 是一种新出现的、具有潜在剧毒的蜜蜂 (Apis meiiiferai) 病原体，在过去 10 年左右的时间里已在世界范围内传播。由于缺乏适当的遗传标记以及对假定的亚洲来源人群的采样不足，目前尚不清楚其确切的起源和传播时间。尽管根据对患病蜂巢快照采样的相关分析，它在美国被排除为 CCD 的原因，但对自然感染蜂群的观察表明，它导致西班牙蜂群崩溃。迫切需要进行实验来研究其对个体和菌落的影响，并确定中华蜂与菌落崩溃之间的因果关系。蜜蜂猪笼草是否正在取代蜜蜂猪笼草尚不确定。对于温带养蜂者来说，全球气候变化可能意味着中华蜂所面临的挑战比迄今为止所认为的还要大。
Summary Nosema ceranae is an emergent and potentially virulent pathogen of the honey bee (Apis meiiiferai) that has spread across the world in the last 10 or so years. Its precise origin and timing of spread are currently unclear because of a lack of appropriate genetic markers and inadequate sampling in putative Asian source populations. Though it has been dismissed as a cause of CCD in the USA based on correlational analyses of snapshot sampling of diseased hives, observations of naturally infected colonies suggest that it leads to colony collapse in Spain. Experiments are sorely needed to investigate its impact on individuals and colonies, and to pin down a causal relationship between N. ceranae and colony collapse. Whether N. ceranae is displacing N. apis is uncertain. For temperate zone apiculturalists, global climate change may mean that N. ceranae presents more of a challenge than has hitherto been considered the case.