Effects of the interaction between the thiametoxam insecticide and picoxystrobin fungicide on larvae and adult of africanized Apis mellifera

• Grant number: 14/04697-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Applied Zoology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Elaine Cristina Mathias da Silva
• Grantee: Caio Eduardo da Costa Domingues
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade (CCTS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Apis mellifera honey bee is responsible for the pollination of several kinds of agriculture fields in Brazil. However, the pesticide misuse in the monocultures that is associated to the habitat fragmentation and to pathogens is causing the population decline of bees around the world. The present study aims to evaluate the biological effects of the interaction between the thiametoxam insecticide and picoxystrobin fungicide in larvae and adult of africanized Apis mellifera, by means of chronic exposure to realistic concentrations of both pesticides, as well as to analyze the cellular biomarkers of oxidative stress on the fat body from larvae and worker adult of A. mellifera submitted to bioassays. The selected organ for immuno-histochemical analyses, in order to detect cellular biomarkers, is the fat body because this organ has also the function in xenobiotic metabolism. The information that will be get in the present study, in practice level, might subside future programs of bee's contamination monitoring in the field, using the cellular biomarkers in individuals that could be collected from the apiaries located around the crops. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DOMINGUES, CAIO E. C.; ABDALLA, FABIO CAMARGO; BALSAMO, PAULO JOSE; PEREIRA, BEATRIZ V. R.; HAUSEN, MOEMA DE ALENCAR; COSTA, MONICA JONES; SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE C. M.. Thiamethoxam and picoxystrobin reduce the survival and overload the hepato-nephrocitic system of the Africanized honeybee. Chemosphere, v. 186, p. 994-1005, NOV 2017. (14/04697-9, 11/17840-6, 13/09419-4)

ABDALLA, FABIO CAMARGO; DA COSTA DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO. Hepato-Nephrocitic System: A Novel Model of Biomarkers for Analysis of the Ecology of Stress in Environmental Biomonitoring. PLoS One, v. 10, n. 7, JUL 21 2015. (14/04697-9, 11/17840-6)

BATISTA, ANA CAROLINA; DA COSTA DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO; COSTA, MONICA JONES; MATHIAS SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE CRISTINA. Is a strobilurin fungicide capable of inducing histopathological effects on the midgut and Malpighian tubules of honey bees?. JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH, v. 59, n. 5, FEB 2020. (14/04697-9)

BALSAMO, PAULO JOSE; DA COSTA DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO; DA SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE CRISTINA MATHIAS; GREGORC, ALES; IRAZUSTA, SILVIA PIERRE; SALLA, RAQUEL FERNANDA; COSTA, MONICA JONES; ABDALLA, FABIO CAMARGO. Impact of sublethal doses of thiamethoxam and Nosema ceranae inoculation on the hepato-nephrocitic system in young Africanized Apis mellifera. JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH, v. 59, n. 4, NOV 2019. (14/04697-9, 17/06056-9, 11/17840-6, 13/09419-4)

ABDALLA, FABIO C.; SAMPAIO, GUILHERME; PEDROSA, MARINA; SIPRIANO, THAMIRIS P.; DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO C.; SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE CRISTINA M.; DE CAMARGO, DAIANE A.. Larval development of Physocephala (Diptera, Conopidae) in the bumble bee Bombus morio (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, v. 58, n. 4, p. 343-348, OCT-DEC 2014. (14/04697-9, 11/17840-6)