Age and Season Effect the Timing of Adult Worker Honeybee Infection by Nosema ceranae.

ABSTRACT: The microsporidia Nosema ceranae is an intracellular parasite of honeybees' midgut, highly prevalent in Apis mellifera colonies for which important epidemiological information is still unknown. Our research aimed at understanding how age and season influence the onset of infection in honeybees and its development in the colony environment. Adult worker honeybees of less than 24h were marked and introduced into 6 different colonies in assays carried out in spring and autumn. Bees of known age were individually analyzed by PCR for Nosema spp. infection and those resulting positive were studied to determine the load by Real Time-qPCR. The age of onset and development of infection in each season was studied on a total of 2401 bees and the probability and the load of infect

SUBMITTER: Jabal-Uriel C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8836290 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature