Data from: A trisiloxane surfactant interacts with ovarian gene expression in honey bee queens and elevates Deformed Wing Virus prevalence in queen ovaries

A honey bee queen ability to produce eggs is critical to the function of a colony, yet little is known regarding the effects of stress on oviposition or the physiological processes underpinning those effects. Previous work has shown that exposure to field relevant doses of commonly used trisiloxane surfactant found in agricultural adjuvants reduced the oviposition rates of queens in a laboratory setting. Here, the work is expanded to include transcriptomic analysis of queen ovaries exposed to one of the trisiloxane surfactant targets. Our transcriptomic analysis identified a positive correlation between trisiloxane surfactant-exposure and increased abundance of Deformed Wing Virus in the ovaries of queens, also we highlight complex but significant effects between oviposition and reproductive gene expression patterns. Specifically, we note intriguing patterns involving expression of heat shock protein (HSP90) and a cytochrome P450 4C1 gene both tied to key physiological processes related to organismal stress response.

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