Measurement of protein and sugar consumed by bumblebee larvae under standard and food stress conditions using lanthanide complexes

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60461373:22330/18:43917202 RIV/60461373:22340/18:43917202 RIV/00023272:_____/19:10134443 RIV/00216208:11310/19:10401001 RIV/26296080:_____/19:N0000119

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00040-018-00681-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00040-018-00681-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-018-00681-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00040-018-00681-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Measurement of protein and sugar consumed by bumblebee larvae under standard and food stress conditions using lanthanide complexes

Original language description

Measurement of food consumed by larvae of progressive provisioning bees requires an experimental approach that marks the food sources appropriately. This paper aims to measure the amount of sugars and proteins consumed by a single bumblebee larva and to define, how the proportion between protein and sugar changes under stress conditions. We marked sugar and pollen sources using lanthanide (gadolinium, dysprosium) complexes with diethylene-triamine-pentaacetic acid (DTPA) chelator. We precisely quantified the amount of Gd and Dy in feces, and thus quantified linearly correlated protein and sugar consumed by males and females (workers) of Bombus terrestris during their development. We compared body mass, total amount of ingested sugar and total amount of ingested protein in colonies which are fed ad libitum and in colonies with restricted feeding. Males fed ad libitum during their development ingested 0.52mg of protein and 4.43mg of sugar, and workers fed ad libitum ingested 0.54mg of protein and 4.26mg of sugar per 1 mg of dry body weight on average. Food-stressed workers ingested 0.51mg of protein and 4.65mg of sugar per 1 mg of dry body weight on average. Strong positive correlation between body mass, total protein ingested, and total sugar ingested in all our experiments was present. However, the consumption of sugar grew steeper with the consumption of protein in colonies under food stress compared to the ad libitum-fed colonies. In conclusion, we show the existence of different patterns in ingestion of protein and sugar between well-fed and food-stressed bumblebee colonies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Insectes Sociaux

ISSN

0020-1812

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

245-256

UT code for WoS article

000466965700008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057957187