How does adulteration of wax foundation affect phenoloxidase and lysozyme activities as selected parameters of immunity in Apis mellifera ?
01 sie 2024
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Data publikacji: 01 sie 2024
Zakres stron: 395 - 400
Otrzymano: 18 gru 2023
Przyjęty: 24 lip 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2024-0040
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Fig. 1.

Effect of adulteration levels of comb wax with paraffin and stearin (0%, 10%, 30% or 50%) in individual age cohorts of A_ mellifera worker bees (1, 7 and 14 days) on phenoloxidase and lysozyme activities in haemolymph
Age of workers | Effect of adulteration level | |||
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Paraffin | Stearin | |||
phenoloxidase activities | lysozyme activities | phenoloxidase activities | lysozyme activities | |
1 day | H3 = 73.31 | H3 = 99.86 | H3 = 111.57 | H3 = 111.59 |
P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | |
7 days | H3 = 111.58 | H3 = 110.83 | H3 = 111.59 | H3= 111.58 |
P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | |
14 days | H3 = 111.58 | H3 = 111.57 | H3 = 111.58 | H3 = 110.58 |
P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 | P-value = 0.000 |
Effect of age of A_ mellifera worker bees (1, 7 and 14 days) from broods from combs with one of four adulteration levels of wax with paraffin and stearin (0%, 10%, 30% or 50%) on phenoloxidase and lysozyme activities in haemolymph
Activities | Effect of age | ||||||
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Control | Paraffin | Stearin | |||||
0% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 50% | |
phenoloxidase | H2 = 79.13 | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.12 | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.12 |
P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | |
lysozyme | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.13 | H2 = 79.13 | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.13 | H2 = 79.14 | H2 = 79.14 |
P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 | P-value = 0.0000 |