Claim · model-written summary
Caffeine significantly reduced N. bombi infection intensity in individual Bombus terrestris, both prophylactically and therapeutically.
- Taxon
- sainfoine1
- Treatment
- caffeinee0
- Interactor
- Bombus terrestris
Bombus terrestrise0pollinator - Second interactor
- N. bombiVairimorpha bombie0pathogen
- Outcome
- N. bombi infection intensitye0
- Direction
- reducese0
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Verbatim
e0“caffeine significantly reduces N. bombi infection intensity, both prophylactically and therapeutically, in individual bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris )”
t0“Agri-environment scheme nectar chemistry”
e1“Caffeine, which occurs across a range of plant families, was identified in the nectar of sainfoin ( Onobrychis viciifolia )”
Title
Arran J. Folly; Hauke Koch; Iain W. Farrell; et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2021. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0363
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Caffeine was identified in sainfoin nectar.
- Intervention effect Colonies reared from wild caught queens had lower infection prevalence after caffeine treatment.
- Intervention effect Colonies reared from wild caught queens had lower infection intensity after caffeine treatment.
- Intervention effect Foraging bumblebees from caffeine treated colonies had lower infection prevalence.