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The relation of age to division of labor was assessed in a primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia marginata. The performance of four functionally significant tasks was analyzed. It was found that age has a definite correlation with
division of labor, since wasps performed tasks in a distinct sequence in their life with successive tasks being initiated
at significantly older ages. Age of a wasp was measured in absolute terms and also relative to other individuals in the colony.
Probability of performance of a given task relative to other tasks (PTP) and absolute rates at which tasks were performed
per unit time (FTP) both showed clear age-dependent patterns, confirming the association of age with division of labor. The
proportion of variance explained for both PTP and FTP was significantly higher with relative age than with absolute age. Interindividual
interactions were found to be a potential mechanism through which wasps can determine their relative age. The advantages of
work organization depending on relative age and the constraints imposed by absolute age are discussed.
Received: 2 April 1997 / Accepted after revision: 20 July 1997 相似文献
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Sean O'Donnell 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1998,43(4-5):327-331
Dominance interactions affected patterns of non-reproductive division of labor (polyethism) in the eusocial wasp Mischocyttarus mastigophorus. Socially dominant individuals foraged for food (nectar and insect prey) at lower rates than subordinate individuals. In
contrast, dominant wasps performed most of the foraging for the wood pulp used in nest construction. Social dominance also
affected partitioning of materials collected by foragers when they returned to the nest. Wood pulp loads were never shared
with nest mates, while food loads, especially insect prey, were often partitioned with other wasps. Dominant individuals on
the nest were more likely to take food from arriving foragers than subordinate individuals. The role of dominance interactions
in regulating polyethism has evolved in the eusocial paper wasps (Polistinae). Both specialization by foragers and task partitioning
have increased from basal genera (independent-founding wasps, including Mischo-cyttarus spp.) to more derived genera (swarm-founding Epiponini). Dominance interactions do not regulate forager specialization or
task partitioning in epiponines. I hypothesize that these changes in polyethism were enabled by the evolution of increased
colony size in the Epiponini.
Received: 8 December 1997 / Accepted after revision: 28 March 1998 相似文献
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In honeybees, as in other highly eusocial species, tasks are performed by individual workers, but selection for worker task
phenotypes occurs at the colony level. We investigated the effect of colony-level selection for pollen storage levels on the
foraging behavior of individual honeybee foragers to determine (1) the relationship between genotype and phenotypic expression
of foraging traits at the individual level and (2) how genetically based variation in worker task phenotype is integrated
into colony task organization. We placed workers from lines selected at the colony level for high or low pollen stores together
with hybrid workers into a common hive environment with controlled access to resources. Workers from the selected lines showed
reciprocal variation in pollen and nectar collection. High-pollen-line foragers collected pollen preferentially, and low-
pollen-line workers collected nectar, indicating that the two tasks covary genetically. Hybrid workers were not intermediate
in phenotype, but instead showed directional dominance for nectar collection. We monitored the responses of workers from the
selected strains to changes in internal (colony) and external (resource) stimulus levels for pollen foraging to measure the
interaction between genotypic variation in foraging behavior and stimulus environment. Under low-stimulus conditions, the
foraging group was over-represented by high-pollen-line workers. However, the evenness in distribution of the focal genetic
groups increased as foraging stimuli increased. These data are consistent with a model where task choice is a consequence
of genetically based response thresholds, and where genotypic diversity allows colony flexibility by providing a range of
stimulus thresholds.
Received: 3 May 1999 / Received in revised form: 22 December 1999 / Accepted: 23 January 2000 相似文献