Honeybees control the gas permeability of brood and honey cappings
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F22%3A00564895" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/22:00564895 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/22:43905311 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10456138
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222017175/pdfft?md5=02afed13a07906e4a88da31698b66fe4&pid=1-s2.0-S2589004222017175-main.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222017175/pdfft?md5=02afed13a07906e4a88da31698b66fe4&pid=1-s2.0-S2589004222017175-main.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105445" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.isci.2022.105445</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Honeybees control the gas permeability of brood and honey cappings
Original language description
Some bee species use wax to build their nests. They store honey and raise their brood in cells made entirely from wax. How can the bee brood breathe and develop properly when sealed in wax cells? We compared the chemical composition and structural properties of the honey cappings and worker brood cappings of the honeybee Apis mellifera carnica, measured the worker brood respiration, and calculated the CO2 gradients across the two types of cappings. We identified microscopic pores present in the brood cappings that allow efficient gas exchange of the developing brood. In contrary, honey cappings are nearly gas impermeable to protect honey from fermenting. Similar principles apply in bumble bees. Our data suggest the control of gas exchange of cappings as a selective pressure in the evolution of wax-building bees that drives their adaptation for using wax in two highly contrasting biological contexts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10605 - Developmental biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
iScience
ISSN
2589-0042
e-ISSN
2589-0042
Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
105445
UT code for WoS article
000892133500007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141258567