Comparative Proteomics Across Tissues and Crop Agroecosystems Reveals Agricultural Stressor Responses in the Western Honey Bee (opens in new tab)

Maintaining honey bee health in crop production systems is increasingly difficult because worker bees encounter multiple chemical and biological pressures from pesticides and pathogens. How these field-realistic pressures affect molecular physiology across functionally distinct tissues remains poorly understood. Here, we tested whether tissue-resolved proteomics could separate stable tissue-specific patterns from crop-associated molecular changes. To do this, we profiled abdomen, gut, and hea...