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Açık MN, Karagülle B, Yakut S, Öztürk Y, Kutlu MA, Kalın R, Çetinkaya B. Production, characterization and therapeutic efficacy of egg yolk antibodies specific to Nosema ceranae. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0297864. [PMID: 38335158 PMCID: PMC10857605 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Nosema disease, caused by Nosema ceranae, one of the single-celled fungal microsporidian parasites, is one of the most important and common diseases of adult honey bees. Since fumagillin, which has been used for decades in the control of Nosema disease in honey bees (Apis mellifera), poses a toxic threat and its efficacy against N. ceranae is uncertain, there is an urgent need to develop alternative prophylactic and curative strategies for the treatment of this disease. The main aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic potential of specific egg yolk immunoglobulins (IgY) on Nosema disease. For this purpose, the presence of N. ceranae was determined by microscopic and PCR methods in honey bees collected from Nosema suspicious colonies by conducting a field survey. Layered Ataks chickens, divided into four groups each containing 20 animals, were vaccinated with live and inactivated vaccines prepared from field isolates of N. ceranae. Eggs were collected weekly for 10 weeks following the last vaccination. IgY extraction was performed using the PEG precipitation method from egg yolks collected from each group, and the purity of the antibodies was determined by SDS-PAGE and Western Blot. The presence of N. ceranae-specific IgYs was investigated by Western Blot and indirect ELISA methods. It was determined that specific IgYs showed high therapeutic efficacy on Nosema disease in naturally infected bee colonies. In addition, honey bees collected from infected colonies were brought to the laboratory and placed in cages with 30 bees each, and the effectiveness of IgYs was investigated under controlled conditions. It was detected that specific IgY reduced the Nosema spore load and the number of infected bees significantly in both the field and experimental study groups treated for seven days. It was concluded that chicken IgYs, an innovative and eco-friendly method, had a significant potential for use as an alternative to antifungal drugs.
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- Mehmet Nuri Açık
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bingol, Bingol, Turkiye
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Firat, Elazig, Turkiye
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bingol, Bingol, Turkiye
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Necmettin Erbakan, Konya, Turkiye
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- Department of Plant and Animal Production, Vocational School of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, University of Bingol, Bingol, Turkiye
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkiye
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Firat, Elazig, Turkiye
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Berbeć E, Migdał P, Cebrat M, Roman A, Murawska A. Honeybee age and inoculum concentration as factors affecting the development of Nosema ceranae infection. THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2022.2121009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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- E. Berbeć
- Bee Division, Department of Environment, Hygiene and Animal Welfare, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Bee Division, Department of Environment, Hygiene and Animal Welfare, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Bee Division, Department of Environment, Hygiene and Animal Welfare, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Bee Division, Department of Environment, Hygiene and Animal Welfare, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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Comper JR, Eberl HJ. Mathematical modelling of population and food storage dynamics in a honey bee colony infected with Nosema ceranae. Heliyon 2020; 6:e04599. [PMID: 32904273 PMCID: PMC7452510 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Revised: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Unusually high wintering losses of Apis mellifera in recent years has raised concerns regarding the well-being and productivity of honey bees across the globe. While these losses are likely multi-factorial, a proposed contributor are diseases, including those caused by parasites. We formulate and present a mathematical model for a colony of Apis mellifera honey bees infected with the microsporidian parasite Nosema ceranae. The model is numerically analyzed to determine the effects of N. ceranae infection on population and food storage dynamics and their subsequent implications towards colony survival and annual honey yield. Depending on the strength of disease, it is possible for either parasite fadeout, co-existence between bees and N. ceranae, or colony failure to occur. In all cases, the yield of honey collected by the beekeeper is reduced. We further extend the model to include various treatment schemes with the, now discontinued, antimicrobial fumagillin. Treatment with fumagillin can reduce the risk of colony failure and will increase honey yield compared to when no treatment is applied.
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- J. Reilly Comper
- Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Guelph, Guelph ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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Ferguson JA, Northfield TD, Lach L. Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Pollen Foraging Reflects Benefits Dependent on Individual Infection Status. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2018; 76:482-491. [PMID: 29380027 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-018-1147-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Parasites often modify host foraging behavior, for example, by spurring changes to nutrient intake ratios or triggering self-medication. The gut parasite, Nosema ceranae, increases energy needs of the European or Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), but little is known about how infection affects foraging behavior. We used a combination of experiments and observations of caged and free-flying individual bees and hives to determine how N. ceranae affects honey bee foraging behavior. In an experiment with caged bees, we found that infected bees with access to a high-quality pollen were more likely to survive than infected bees with access to a lower quality pollen or no pollen. Non-infected bees showed no difference in survival with pollen quality. We then tested free-flying bees in an arena of artificial flowers and found that pollen foraging bees chose pollen commensurate with their infection status; twice as many infected bees selected the higher quality pollen than the lower quality pollen, while healthy bees showed no preference between pollen types. However, healthy and infected bees visited sucrose and pollen flowers in the same proportions. Among hive-level observations, we found no significant correlations between N. ceranae infection intensity in the hive and the proportion of bees returning with pollen. Our results indicate that N. ceranae-infected bees benefit from increased pollen quality and will selectively forage for higher quality while foraging for pollen, but infection status does not lead to increased pollen foraging at either the individual or hive levels.
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- Jade A Ferguson
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia.
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Martín-Hernández R, Bartolomé C, Chejanovsky N, Le Conte Y, Dalmon A, Dussaubat C, García-Palencia P, Meana A, Pinto MA, Soroker V, Higes M. Nosema ceranaeinApis mellifera: a 12 years postdetectionperspective. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:1302-1329. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Raquel Martín-Hernández
- Laboratorio de Patología Apícola. Centro de Investigación Apícola y Agroambiental de Marchamalo, (CIAPA-IRIAF), Consejería de Agricultura de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha; Marchamalo Spain
- Instituto de Recursos Humanos para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (INCRECYT-FEDER), Fundación Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Castilla - La Mancha; Spain
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- Medicina Xenómica, CIMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Xenómica Comparada de Parásitos Humanos, IDIS, 15782 Santiago de Compostela; Galicia Spain
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- Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center; Rishon LeZion Israel
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- INRA, UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement; F-84000 Avignon France
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- INRA, UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement; F-84000 Avignon France
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- Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Spain
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- Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), Polytechnic Institute of Bragança; 5300-253 Bragança Portugal
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- Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center; Rishon LeZion Israel
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- Laboratorio de Patología Apícola. Centro de Investigación Apícola y Agroambiental de Marchamalo, (CIAPA-IRIAF), Consejería de Agricultura de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha; Marchamalo Spain
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Pan Q, Wang L, Dang X, Ma Z, Zhang X, Chen S, Zhou Z, Xu J. Bacterium-Expressed dsRNA Downregulates Microsporidia Nosema bombycis Gene Expression. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2016; 64:278-281. [PMID: 27397809 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2016] [Revised: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The microsporidia Nosema bombycis is the insect pathogen of pebrine disease severely destructive to sericulture production. Here, we describe the use of Escherichia coli HT115 strain (DE3) to express double-strand RNAs targeting the gene encoding ADP/ATP protein in N. bombycis. The results showed that dsRNAs deferentially suppressed the gene expression during N. bombycis infection in the silkworm, and the effect waned gradually. Our results, for the first time, provide a tool to utilize the dsRNA expressed by recombinant E. coli to control the pebrine disease of the domestic silkworm.
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- Qiuling Pan
- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- Sericultural and Apicultural Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Mengzi, Yunnan, 661101, China
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- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China.,State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China
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- College of Life sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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Chupia V, Pikulkaew S, Krutmuang P, Mekchay S, Patchanee P. Molecular epidemiology and geographical distribution of Nosema ceranae in honeybees, Northern Thailand. ASIAN PACIFIC JOURNAL OF TROPICAL DISEASE 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s2222-1808(15)60980-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Comparative virulence and competition between Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae in honey bees (Apis mellifera). J Invertebr Pathol 2015; 125:9-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2014.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2014] [Revised: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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