Honeybees, as social insects, live in highly organised colonies where tasks reflect the age of individuals. As is widely known, in this context, emergent properties arise from interactions between them. The accelerated maturation of nurses into foragers, stimulated by many negative fac-tors, may disrupt this complex equilibrium. This complexity needs a paradigm shift: from the study of a single stressor to the study of the effects exerted by multiple stressors on colony homeostasis. The aim of this research is, therefore, to study colony population disturbances by discriminating overaged nurses from proper aged nurses and precocious foragers from proper aged foragers using SDS-PAGE patterns of haemolymph proteins and a machine-learning algorithm. The KNN (K Near-est Neighbours) model fitted on the forager dataset showed remarkably good performances (accu-racy 0.93, sensitivity 0.88, specificity 1.00) in discriminating precocious foragers from proper aged ones. The main strength of this innovative approach lies in the possibility of it being deployed as a preventive tool. Depopulation is an elusive syndrome in bee pathology and early detection with the method described could shed more light on the phenomenon. In addition, it enables countermeas-ures to revert this vicious circle.

Cabbri R., Ferlizza E., Bellei E., Andreani G., Galuppi R., Isani G. (2021). A machine learning approach to study demographic alterations in honeybee colonies using sds–page fingerprinting. ANIMALS, 11(6), 1-11 [10.3390/ani11061823].

A machine learning approach to study demographic alterations in honeybee colonies using sds–page fingerprinting

Cabbri R.;Ferlizza E.
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Andreani G.;Galuppi R.;Isani G.
2021

Abstract

Honeybees, as social insects, live in highly organised colonies where tasks reflect the age of individuals. As is widely known, in this context, emergent properties arise from interactions between them. The accelerated maturation of nurses into foragers, stimulated by many negative fac-tors, may disrupt this complex equilibrium. This complexity needs a paradigm shift: from the study of a single stressor to the study of the effects exerted by multiple stressors on colony homeostasis. The aim of this research is, therefore, to study colony population disturbances by discriminating overaged nurses from proper aged nurses and precocious foragers from proper aged foragers using SDS-PAGE patterns of haemolymph proteins and a machine-learning algorithm. The KNN (K Near-est Neighbours) model fitted on the forager dataset showed remarkably good performances (accu-racy 0.93, sensitivity 0.88, specificity 1.00) in discriminating precocious foragers from proper aged ones. The main strength of this innovative approach lies in the possibility of it being deployed as a preventive tool. Depopulation is an elusive syndrome in bee pathology and early detection with the method described could shed more light on the phenomenon. In addition, it enables countermeas-ures to revert this vicious circle.
2021
Cabbri R., Ferlizza E., Bellei E., Andreani G., Galuppi R., Isani G. (2021). A machine learning approach to study demographic alterations in honeybee colonies using sds–page fingerprinting. ANIMALS, 11(6), 1-11 [10.3390/ani11061823].
Cabbri R.; Ferlizza E.; Bellei E.; Andreani G.; Galuppi R.; Isani G.
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