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Honeybee egg size project-egg proteomics


ABSTRACT: Using the honey bee (Apis mellifera) as a model, we confirmed that honey bee queens actively adjust egg size in response to the number of workers: Queens lay smaller eggs in colonies with more worker bees than when in colonies with few workers. Reduced colony size also causes decreasing ovary weight but upregulation of energy production and protein processing in the ovaries. Complementary metabolomic and proteomic analyses of the produced eggs indicate that amino acid metabolism, cell development, and cell maturation processes are elevated in bigger eggs. Our study thus provides the first mechanistic insights into the adjustment of egg size in the honey bee, a model for complex social systems that demand integration of individual and collective life-history optimization.

ORGANISM(S): Apis Mellifera

SUBMITTER: Shufa Xu  

PROVIDER: PXD047190 | iProX | Thu Nov 23 00:00:00 GMT 2023

REPOSITORIES: iProX

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Group size influences maternal provisioning and compensatory larval growth in honeybees.

Han Bin B   Amiri Esmaeil E   Wei Qiaohong Q   Tarpy David R DR   Strand Micheline K MK   Xu Shufa S   Rueppell Olav O  

iScience 20231123 12


Environmental variation selects for the adaptive plasticity of maternal provisioning. Even though developing honeybees find themselves in a protected colony environment, their reproductively specialized queens actively adjust their maternal investment, even among worker-destined eggs. However, the potentially adaptive consequences of this flexible provisioning strategy and their mechanistic basis are unknown. Under natural conditions, we find that the body size of larvae hatching from small eggs  ...[more]

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