Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera)
Honey bee queens store and use sperm for years after mating, but doing so may require a dampened immune response to keep the sperm viable. Alison McAfee et al. tested this hypothesis using mass spectrometry-based proteomics in queens with high and low sperm quantity and quality and found that lower...
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| author | Alison McAfee Abigail Chapman Jeffery S. Pettis Leonard J. Foster David R. Tarpy |
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| description | Honey bee queens store and use sperm for years after mating, but doing so may require a dampened immune response to keep the sperm viable. Alison McAfee et al. tested this hypothesis using mass spectrometry-based proteomics in queens with high and low sperm quantity and quality and found that lower measures of fertility correlated with high levels of the immune effector lysozyme, consistent with a trade-off between immunity and fertility. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6e31c2981d1548709b5780c1488aa3cc2022-12-21T21:35:30ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Biology2399-36422021-01-014111110.1038/s42003-020-01586-wTrade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera)Alison McAfee0Abigail Chapman1Jeffery S. Pettis2Leonard J. Foster3David R. Tarpy4Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State UniversityDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British ColumbiaPettis and Associates LLCDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State UniversityHoney bee queens store and use sperm for years after mating, but doing so may require a dampened immune response to keep the sperm viable. Alison McAfee et al. tested this hypothesis using mass spectrometry-based proteomics in queens with high and low sperm quantity and quality and found that lower measures of fertility correlated with high levels of the immune effector lysozyme, consistent with a trade-off between immunity and fertility.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01586-w |
| spellingShingle | Alison McAfee Abigail Chapman Jeffery S. Pettis Leonard J. Foster David R. Tarpy Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) Communications Biology |
| title | Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) |
| title_full | Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) |
| title_fullStr | Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) |
| title_short | Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) |
| title_sort | trade offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens apis mellifera |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01586-w |
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