Effect of yeast and essential oil-enriched diets on critical determinants of health and immune function in Africanized Apis mellifera.

ABSTRACT: Nutrition is vital for health and immune function in honey bees (Apis mellifera). The effect of diets enriched with bee-associated yeasts and essential oils of Mexican oregano (Lippia graveolens) was tested on survival, food intake, accumulated fat body tissue, and gene expression of vitellogenin (Vg), prophenoloxidase (proPO) and glucose oxidase (GOx) in newly emerged worker bees. The enriched diets were provided to bees under the premise that supplementation with yeasts or essential oils can enhance health variables and the expression of genes related to immune function in worker bees. Based on a standard pollen substitute, used as a control diet, enriched diets were formulated, five with added bee-associated yeasts (Starmerella bombicola, Sta

SUBMITTER: Canche-Colli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8522645 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature