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Honeybees given prebiotics and probiotics may survive better under temperature-related stress, suggesting that such nutritional supplements might enhance colony resilience




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Protecting honey bees (Apis mellifera) from thermal stress: Probiotics and prebiotics buffer the survival and antioxidant enzyme activity 

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Honeybees given prebiotics and probiotics may survive better under temperature-related stress, suggesting that such nutritional supplements might enhance colony resilience.

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Credit: Dr. Najmeh Sahebzadeh, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)




Article URL: https://plos.io/4ykSBQq

Article title: Protecting honey bees (Apis mellifera) from thermal stress: Probiotics and prebiotics buffer the survival and antioxidant enzyme activity

Author countries: Iran, Canada.

Funding: This work was financially supported by the University of Zabol, Iran, through funding provided to Najmeh Sahebzadeh. In addition, Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR; grant numbers 2024F2208R and 2022N093R), the Alberta Beekeepers Commission (ABC), and the Alberta Pollination Group supported Rassol Bahreini’s collaboration on this project.

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