With the global prevalence of Varroa mites, more and more beekeepers resort to confining the queen bee in a queen cage to control mite infestation or to breed superior and robust queen bees. However, the impact of such practices on the queen bee remains largely unknown. Therefore, we sub...
Gut microbiota across animals have been shown to influence host cognition and behavior. However, it remains unclear whether these cognitive effects are driven by specific bacterial species or arise from community-level interactions. Here, we leveraged the honey bee (Apis mellifera) as a ...
The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in insect immune priming, inducing memory-like response that functionally resembles adaptive immunity confined to vertebrates. While gut microbiota mediates systemic immune activation in insect hemolymph, the mechanisms underlying remote immunoregulation re...