Real-time monitoring of deformed wing virus-infected bee foraging behavior following histone deacetylase inhibitor treatment.

ABSTRACT: Impairment in the learning/memory behavior of bees is responsible for the massive disappearance of bee populations and its consequent agricultural economic losses. Such impairment might be because of o both pesticide exposure and pathogen infection, with a key contributor deformed wing virus (DWV). The present study found that sodium butyrate (NaB) significantly increased survival and reversed the learning/memory impairment of DWV-infected bees. A next-generation sequencing analysis showed that NaB affected the expression of genes involved in glycolytic processes and memory formation, which were suppressed by DWV infection. In addition, we performed a large-scale movement tracking experiment by using a wireless sensor network-based automatic real-time monitoring system and confirmed that N

SUBMITTER: Tang CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8560548 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature