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Poster Presentations
Day 4, June 25（Wed.）
Room P (Maesato East, Foyer, Ocean Wing)
- 4P-PM-35
Comparative Metabolic Profiling of Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera) in Response to Regional Differences and Climate Change in South Korea.
(KIT)
oSung-Gil Choi, Yoon-Jeong Jeon, Jin-Woo Park, Won Noh, Jong-Su Seo, Jong-Hwan Kim
The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most important insect pollinator worldwide. However, the widespread loss of honey bee colonies in recent decades has increasingly affected Asia, Europe, and North America. Climate change is one of several possible factors that may negatively impact honey bee survival.
Untargeted and targeted metabolomics approaches are useful for identifying potential biomarkers to monitor honey bee health and assess environmental stressors. In this study, we collected honey bees from apiaries in the Jeju and Gangwon regions, where significant climate change is expected, while also monitoring climate variations in these areas. To assess metabolic changes in honey bees influenced by environmental factors such as climate change, we utilized UPLC-Q-TOF/MS and GC-Orbitrap/MS. A comparative analysis of honey bee samples from the Jeju and Gangwon regions identified various metabolites and related metabolic pathways that effectively reflected climate change conditions between the two regions.
The discovery of these potential biomarkers suggests their contribution to the systematic improvement of honey bee health monitoring and the diagnosis of environmental stressors, including climate change.