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DOI	10.1098/rsbl.2023.0609
	Unveiling the submerged secrets: bumblebee queens' resilience to flooding
	Rondeau, Sabrina; Raine, Nigel E.
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1744-9561
EISSN	1744-957X
起始页码	20
结束页码	4
卷号	20 期号:4
英文摘要	In a previous study, an experimental oversight led to the accumulation of water filling a container housing diapausing bumblebee queens. Surprisingly, after draining the water, queens were found to be alive. This observation raises a compelling question: can bumblebee queens endure periods of inundation while overwintering underground? To address this question, we conducted an experiment using 143 common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) queens placed in soil-filled tubes and subjected to artificially induced diapause in a refrigerated unit for 7 days. Tap water was then added to the tubes and queens (n = 21 per treatment) were either maintained underwater using a plunger-like apparatus or left to float naturally on the water's surface for varying durations (8 h, 24 h or 7 days) while remaining in overwintering conditions. Seventeen queens served as controls. After the submersion period, queens were removed from water, transferred to new tubes with soil and kept in cold storage for eight weeks. Overall, queen survival remained consistently high (89.5 +/- 6.4%) across all treatments and did not differ among submersion regimes and durations. These results demonstrate the remarkable ability of diapausing B. impatiens queens to withstand submersion under water for up to one week, indicating their adaptations to survive periods of flooding in the wild.
英文关键词	diapause; bumblebees; inundation; flooding; climate change; hibernation
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Biology ; Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:001203168800001
来源期刊	BIOLOGY LETTERS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/287966
作者单位	University of Guelph; University of Ottawa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rondeau, Sabrina,Raine, Nigel E.. Unveiling the submerged secrets: bumblebee queens' resilience to flooding[J],2024,20(4).
APA	Rondeau, Sabrina,&Raine, Nigel E..(2024).Unveiling the submerged secrets: bumblebee queens' resilience to flooding.BIOLOGY LETTERS,20(4).
MLA	Rondeau, Sabrina,et al."Unveiling the submerged secrets: bumblebee queens' resilience to flooding".BIOLOGY LETTERS 20.4(2024).