Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite

Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite

Specific floral resources may help bees to face environmental challenges such as parasite infection, as recently shown for sunflower pollen. Whereas this pollen diet is known to be unsuitable for the larval development of bumble bees, it has been shown to reduce the load of a trypanosomatid parasite...

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Main Authors: Antoine Gekière, Irène Semay, Maxence Gérard, Denis Michez, Pascal Gerbaux, Maryse Vanderplanck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Series:Biology
Subjects:
<i>Crithidia bombi</i>
<i>Bombus terrestris</i>
<i>Helianthus annuus</i>
specialised metabolites
microcolony performance
phenotypic variation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/4/545

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