Elucidating the coevolutionary relationship between sociality and social immunity: a study using facultatively social bees

阐明社会性和社会免疫之间的共同进化关系：一项使用兼性社会蜜蜂的研究

• 批准号: 21K06292
• 负责人: クロニン アダム
• 金额: $ 2.66万
• 依托单位: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K06292/
• 关键词: social immunity; social evolution; bees; social behaviour; immunity; social insects; evolutionary biology

The first experimental work on immune testing of Ceratina okinawana was completed. The development of a new immune testing method was successful and allowed us to provide new insights into the relationship between social evolution and immune system biology through our comparison of social and solitary nests. This work is currently in review in Biology Letters. The second round of experiments on gene expression in Lasioglossum was a success after shifting to liquid nitrogen preservation. In addition, student Ha Nguyen went to Princeton University in the US for the sequencing stage of the project and completed sequencing at the Lewis Sigler Institute for Genomics. These data are currently being analysed. We additionally continued work on Ceratina Okinawana with some early sampling at the start of 2023 which will continue throughout the year with new Masters student Manolo Benitez.

完成了对冲绳角蝉的首次免疫试验工作。一种新的免疫测试方法的开发是成功的，并使我们能够通过比较社会和孤独的巢穴，为社会进化和免疫系统生物学之间的关系提供新的见解。这项工作目前正在生物学快报上进行审查。第二轮的基因表达实验在转移到液氮保存后获得成功。此外，学生Ha Nguyen前往美国普林斯顿大学进行该项目的测序阶段，并在刘易斯西格勒基因组研究所完成测序。目前正在对这些数据进行分析。我们还继续在Ceratina Okinawana上开展工作，并在2023年初进行了一些早期采样，这将与新的硕士生Manolo Benitez一起持续一整年。

项目成果

Group size influences individual immune efficacy in a socially polymorphic bee.

群体大小影响社会多态性蜜蜂的个体免疫功效。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Thi Thu Ha Nguyen;Tsunaki Asano and Adam L Cronin
• 通讯作者: Tsunaki Asano and Adam L Cronin

The influence of social context on personal immunity.

社会背景对个人免疫力的影响。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Ha Nguyen;Tsunaki Asano;Adam L. Cronin
• 通讯作者: Adam L. Cronin

Princeton University(米国)

普林斯顿大学（美国）