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Re: microbes and royal jelly
> queens feed exclusively on the royal jelly produced by nurses, and this may serve as a vehicle for transferring pathogen particles from workers to queen, or from workers to young larvae directly. In this dissertation, I show that nurses that ingest bacteria can transport these bacteria from their gut to their glands where royal jelly is produced, and that this phenomenon is not observed in nurses with experimentally-reduced vg expression. I also show that ingested bacteria are ultimately incorporated into the royal jelly, and that royal jelly from nurses fed pathogenic bacteria has higher concentrations of a potent antimicrobial peptide. Furthermore, I show for the first time that Vg is localized and expressed in worker gut issue, a key organ in insect immunity, where it may carry out antipathogenic and antioxidant functions.
Gyan Harwood. 2019. Immunological and Gene Regulatory Functions of the Protein Vitellogenin in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
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