Effects of planted pollinator habitat on pathogen prevalence and interspecific detection between bee species.

ABSTRACT: Shared resources can instigate pathogen spread due to large congregations of individuals in both natural and human modified resources. Of current concern is the addition of pollinator habitat in conservation efforts as it attracts bees of various species, potentially instigating interspecific sharing of pathogens. Common pathogens have been documented across a wide variety of pollinators with shared floral resources instigating their spread in some, but not all, cases. To evaluate the impact of augmented pollinator habitat on pathogen prevalence, we extracted RNA from samples of eight bee species across three families and screened these samples for nine pathogens using RT-qPCR. We found that some habitat characteristics influenced pathogen detection; however, we found no evidence that path

SUBMITTER: Levenson HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9098541 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature