作者: Reinhard Stindl , Wolfgang Stindl
DOI: 10.1016/J.MEHY.2010.04.003
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摘要: Einstein is often quoted to have said that without the bee, mankind would but 4years live. It highly unlikely he made this comment, which was even mentioned in a Lancet article on honey bees. However, current vanishing of bees can serious consequences for human health, because 35% diet thought benefit from pollination. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) characterized by rapid decline adult bee population, leaving brood and queen poorly or completely unattended, with no dead bodies around hive. A large study found evidence presence amount any individual pesticide infectious agent occurred more frequently abundantly CCD-affected colonies. The growing consensus are suffering comprised immune systems, allow various pathogens invade. question remains, what causes immunosuppression many colonies Apis mellifera North America Europe? Telomeres protective DNA structures located at eukaryotic chromosome tips shorten somatic tissues animals age. Lifelong tissue regeneration takes place mellifera, worker been shown senesce. In humans, vast literature has accumulated exhausted telomere reserves causing impaired age-associated diseases, specifically cancer immunosuppression. Therefore, we propose new causative mechanism bees: critically short telomeres long-lived winter We term premature aging syndrome.