کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5766975 1628208 2017 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Short CommunicationFirst confirmed report of a bacterial brood disease in stingless bees
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
ارتباطات کوتاه گزارش شده برای اولین بار از یک بیماری مریض باکتریایی در زنبورهای قندی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


- First confirmed record of a brood disease in stingless bees (Meliponini).
- Signs and symptoms of the disease are described.
- The causal organism was identified as Lysinibacillus sphaericus.

Susceptibility to brood pathogens in eusocial stingless bees (Meliponini), alternative pollinators to honey bees, is unknown. Brood losses in managed colonies of the Australian stingless bee, Tetragonula carbonaria, were studied over 20 months. We isolated a disease-causing bacterium, Lysinibacillus sphaericus (Firmicutes, Bacillaceae), from worker and queen larvae, brood cell provisions and honey stores. Pathogenicity experiments confirmed this bacterium as the causal organism. It took 22 days from infection to first appearance of brood disease symptoms. This is the first confirmed record of a brood pathogen in stingless bees.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology - Volume 144, March 2017, Pages 7-10
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