Honey bees as biomonitors of environmental contaminants, pathogens, and climate change

Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 134, P. 108457 - 108457

Published: Dec. 16, 2021

Monitoring the environment for pollution, pesticides, and pathogens is crucial protecting human, agriculture, overall ecosystem health. Diverse strategies ranging from physical sensors to sentinel species have been used environmental monitoring. The European honey bee, Apis mellifera, a globally managed pollinator that can serve as continuous biomonitoring species. During foraging, bees are exposed contaminants carry them their hives where they be detected quantified. Although individual vulnerable stressors, bee colony whole more resilient accumulate or respond without collapsing. This allows long-term monitoring of map in geographical area study ecotoxicology gradients over space time. In this paper, we review demonstrated proposed uses We focus our discussion on heavy metals, air pollutants, plant hive materials including honey, wax, stored pollen. present use gene expression, microbiome profiling, other high-throughput methodologies dose-dependent exposure increase detection sensitivity; example, pollen analysis with next generation sequencing reveal presence viruses, fungi, invasive earlier than traditional methods. Finally, discuss opportunities using monitor emerging threats such climate change antimicrobial resistance. narrative highlights versatility potential utility

Language: Английский

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Hormesis and insects: Effects and interactions in agroecosystems

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 825, P. 153899 - 153899

Published: Feb. 15, 2022

Language: Английский

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Characterization of Apis mellifera Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Lactic Acid Bacteria for Honeybee Protection—A Review

Cells, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 10(3), P. 701 - 701

Published: March 22, 2021

Numerous honeybee (Apis mellifera) products, such as honey, propolis, and bee venom, are used in traditional medicine to prevent illness promote healing. Therefore, this insect has a huge impact on humans’ way of life the environment. While population A. mellifera is large, there concern that widespread commercialization beekeeping, combined with environmental pollution action pathogens, caused significant problems for health populations. One strategies preserve welfare honeybees better understand protect their natural microbiota. This paper provides unique overview latest research features functioning mellifera. Honeybee microbiome analysis focuses both function numerous factors affecting it. In addition, we present characteristics lactic acid bacteria (LAB) an important part gut community special beneficial activities health. The idea probiotics promising tool improve widely discussed. Knowledge microbiota opportunity create broad strategy vitality, including development modern probiotic preparations use instead conventional antibiotics, environmentally friendly biocides, biological control agents.

Language: Английский

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Toxicology and Microbiota: How Do Pesticides Influence Gut Microbiota? A Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 18(11), P. 5510 - 5510

Published: May 21, 2021

In recent years, new targets have been included between the health outcomes induced by pesticide exposure. The gastrointestinal tract is a key physical and biological barrier it represents primary site of exposure to toxic agents. Recently, intestinal microbiota has emerged as notable factor regulating pesticides’ toxicity. However, specific mechanisms related this interaction are not well known. review, we discuss influence on gut microbiota, discussing factors influencing microbial diversity, summarize updated literature. conclusion, more studies needed clarify host–microbial relationship concerning define prevention interventions, such identification biomarkers mucosal function.

Language: Английский

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Impact of imidacloprid exposure on the biochemical responses, transcriptome, gut microbiota and growth performance of the Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 424, P. 127513 - 127513

Published: Oct. 15, 2021

Language: Английский

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Contribution of insect gut microbiota and their associated enzymes in insect physiology and biodegradation of pesticides

Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: Sept. 14, 2022

Synthetic pesticides are extensively and injudiciously applied to control agriculture household pests worldwide. Due their high use, toxic residues have enormously increased in the agroecosystem past several years. They caused many severe threats non-target organisms, including humans. Therefore, complete removal of compounds is gaining wide attention protect ecosystem diversity living organisms. Several methods, such as physical, chemical biological, degrade compounds, but compared other biological methods considered more efficient, fast, eco-friendly less expensive. In particular, employing microbial species purified enzymes makes degradation pollutants accessible converts them into non-toxic products by metabolic pathways. The digestive tract insects usually known a superior organ that provides nutrient-rich environment hundreds perform pivotal role various physiological ecological functions. There direct relationship between insect pests: reduce growth alter phyla located gut microbiome. comparison, microbiota tries changing toxicity, increasing production regulation diverse range enzymes. These breakdown derivatives, utilize sole source carbon, sulfur energy. resistance (carbamates, pyrethroids, organophosphates, organochlorines, neonicotinoids) developed mechanisms, expression detoxifying genes guts. This review summarizes effects agrochemicals on humans, animals, birds beneficial arthropods. It explores preferential process mechanism species. Additionally, pathways been systematically discussed better understand xenobiotics

Language: Английский

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Pesticide-induced hormesis in arthropods: Towards biological systems

Current Opinion in Toxicology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 29, P. 43 - 50

Published: Feb. 12, 2022

Language: Английский

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Mild chronic exposure to pesticides alters physiological markers of honey bee health without perturbing the core gut microbiota

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: March 11, 2022

Abstract Recent studies highlighted that exposure to glyphosate can affect specific members of the core gut microbiota honey bee workers. However, in this study, bees were exposed relatively high concentrations. Here, we chronically newly emerged imidacloprid, and difenoconazole, individually a ternary mixture, at an environmental concentration 0.1 µg/L. We studied effects these exposures on establishment microbiota, physiological status, longevity, food consumption host. The bacterial species not affected by three pesticides. Negative observed but they restricted few transient non-core species. absence pesticides induced disruption directly altering detoxification system, antioxidant defenses, metabolism Our study indicates even mild alter homeostasis particularly if individuals exhibit dysbiosis (i.e. mostly lack microbiota). This highlights importance early healthy community strengthen natural defenses against xenobiotic stressors.

Language: Английский

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Effects of thiacloprid exposure on microbiota–gut–liver axis: Multiomics mechanistic analysis in Japanese quails

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 442, P. 130082 - 130082

Published: Sept. 30, 2022

Language: Английский

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Thiacloprid impairs honeybee worker learning and memory with inducing neuronal apoptosis and downregulating memory-related genes

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 885, P. 163820 - 163820

Published: May 2, 2023

Language: Английский

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