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Identifying Microbial Resistance of the Apis mellifera Melanization Immune Response
Author(s) -
Knier Rochelle
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.648.5
Subject(s) - hemolymph , biology , immune system , identification (biology) , immunity , melanin , honey bee , resistance (ecology) , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , zoology , ecology , genetics
Apis mellifera , one of the most common species of honey bee, has been suffering disease and colony collapse. While there has been effort in identification and treatment of the pathogens, the study of their insufficient immunoresponse has gone under‐researched. Melanization is a common form of immune response in insects and has been seen in Apis mellifera . The goal of this study is to isolate melanin from hemolymph and conduct multiple experiments with known pathogens against it with the purpose of identifying microbial resistance and further inferring the mechanism of immunity. With this knowledge, a method of improving the Apis mellifera immune response may be found. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .