The Trade-Off Between the Increased Colony Nurturing Ability and the Decreased Lifespan of Worker Bees (<i>Apis mellifera</i>).

ABSTRACT: High temperature is normally harmful to an organism. However, honey bees evolve, maintaining a relatively higher colony temperature of 34.5 °C in the long reproduction period. To determine the effect of such a higher colony temperature on adult bees and its biological significance, newly emerged bees were reared in cages at 34.5 °C and room temperature of 25.0 °C, respectively. Their survival rate, head weight, royal jelly-secreting gene expression, and morphology of the hypopharyngeal gland were investigated. Moreover, 40-day-old bees with significant differences in survival rate between the two temperature groups were subject to transcriptome and lipidome analysis. The result showed that the higher colony temperature was overall negative for the bees' longevity. Transcriptome analysis sh

SUBMITTER: Sun C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12192699 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature