{"id":758,"date":"2022-09-07T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/?p=758"},"modified":"2022-09-07T21:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:32:46","slug":"the-many-benefits-of-hygienic-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/2022\/09\/07\/the-many-benefits-of-hygienic-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"The many benefits of hygienic selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our new collaborative work with the group of Victoria Soroker of the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel is showing that selection for hygienic behavior in honey bees has multiple benefits. Not only is social immunity enhanced, but this also translates into lower Varroa mite loads and better individual immunity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2022\/09\/Hygienic-Behavior-Multiple-Benefits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2737\" height=\"863\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new collaborative work with the group of Victoria Soroker of the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel is showing that selection for hygienic behavior in honey bees has multiple benefits. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/2022\/09\/07\/the-many-benefits-of-hygienic-selection\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}