ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Reduced deformed wing virus of Apis mellifera L. nurses by high fat diets under laboratory conditions
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Plant Protection Department, University of Kufa, Najaf Governorate, Iraq
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Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article
Submission date: 2020-10-07
Acceptance date: 2020-11-25
Online publication date: 2021-02-16
Corresponding author
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2021;61(1):57-62
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ABSTRACT
Deformed wing virus (DWV) is one of the most widespread viral infections of European
honey bee Apis mellifera L. worldwide. So far, this is the first study which tested the effect
of different ratios of synthetic protein to fat (P : F) diets on the health of broodless nurseaged
honey bees in the laboratory. The aim of the current study was to determine the load
of DWV in the whole body of A. mellifera that were fed different ratios of P : F diets (25 : 1,
10 : 1, 5 : 1, 1 : 1, 1 : 5, 1 : 10, 1 : 12.5 and 1 : 0 as a control). The methods involved feeding
bees the tested diets for 10 days and then measuring the virus titre using qPCR technique.
The results showed that DWV concentration decreased as the fat content of diets consumed
increased. The copy number of viral genomes declined from 7.5 × 105 in the zero-fat diet
(1 : 0) to 1.6 × 102 virus genomes in 1 : 12.5 (P : F). We can conclude that there is a positive
relationship between fat diets and bee immunity and overall results suggest a connection
between fat diet and bee health, indicating that colony losses can be reduced by providing
a certain protein and fat supplemental feeding.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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