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Alteration of survival and oxidative balance induced by subchronic exposure of overwintered honeybees to insecticide, fungicide and herbicide combinations
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National audience. Honeybees are exposed during their foraging activities to a large variety of pollutants including pesticides. Overwintered honeybees are, as a result, subjected to chronic sublethal exposures of pesticide mixtures. To explore the impact of different pesticide combinations on winter honeybee survival, we chronically exposed adult overwintered honeybees during 16 days to low concentrations (0.01, 0.1, 1 and 10 µg/L) of imidacloprid (neonicotinoid insecticide), difenoconazole (triazole fungicide) and glyphosate (amino-phosphonate glycine herbicide) alone or in binary and ternary mixtures. The survival rates and food consumption were recorded daily. In order to measure the impact on oxidative balance, we measured the activity of six enzymes involved in the antioxidative defenses in the honeybee's head, midgut and abdomen and oxidative stress damages by quantifying midgut lipid and protein oxidation accompanied with midgut histological analysis. Mortality rates suggest that the effects on bees are not dose dependent; the concentration of 0.1 µg/L induces the highest mortality rates, followed by the concentrations of 1 and 10 µg/L. In addition, pesticide mixtures have higher impact than pesticides alone. These effects vary according to the combinations and the concentrations; An additive effect was observed with the insecticide-fungicide mixture at 0.01 and 0.1 µg/L and at 0.01 and 10 µg/L, for the ternary mixture, whereas a synergistic effect occurs with the ternary mixture at 0.1 µg/L and 1 µg/L and the insecticide-herbicide mixture at 1 and 10 µg/L. The lipid and protein oxidation at 0.1 µg/L and the physiological markers at 1 µg/L reveal a disruption of oxidative balance at both concentrations with an increase at 1 µg/L of the activities of glutathione-S-transferase, gluththione reductase and glutathione peroxidase in the head, and of the superoxide dismutase. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glutathione-S-transferase in the midgut. Conversely, a decrease is observed for superoxide dismutase in the head and catalase in the midgut. These results suggest that these three types of agrochemicals with different mode of actions may have common molecular targets in honeybees, leading, when combined, to greater alterations and drastic honeybee mortality.
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