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Control of reproduction in social insect colonies: individual and collective relatedness preferences in the paper wasp, Polistes annularis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
David C. Queller J. M. Peters Carlos R. Solís Joan E. Strassmann 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1997,40(1):3-16
Social insect colonies often have one or a few queens. How these queens maintain their reproductive monopoly, when other
colony members could gain by sharing in the reproduction, is not generally known. DNA microsatellite genotyping is used to
determine reproductive interests of various classes of colony members in the paper wasp, Polistes annularis. The relatedness estimates show that the best outcome for most individuals is to be the reproductive egg-layer. For workers,
this depends on the sex of offspring: they should prefer to lay their own male eggs, but are indifferent if the queen lays
the female eggs. The next-best choice is usually to support the current queen. As a rule, subordinates and workers should
prefer the current queen to reproduce over other candidates (though subordinates have no strong preference for the queen over
other subordinates, and workers may prefer other workers as a source of male eggs). This result supports the theory that reproductive
monopoly stems from the collective preferences of non-reproductives, who suppress each other in favor of the queen. However,
we reject the general hypothesis of collective worker control in this species because its predictions about who should succeed
after the death of the present queen are not upheld. The first successor is a subordinate foundress even though workers should
generally prefer a worker successor. If all foundresses have died, an older worker succeeds as queen, in spite of a collective
worker preference for a young worker. The results support the previous suggestion that age serves as a conventional cue serving
to reduce conflict over queen succession.
Received: 3 May 1996 / Accepted after revision: 22 September 1996 相似文献
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There is great potential for conflict within social insect colonies especially when there are multiple inseminated females
laying eggs. One reason that conflict is not always realized may be that these females do not identify their own progeny and
direct their attentions preferentially towards them. Using DNA microsatellite loci we were able to determine exactly which
female was the mother of each larva in eight nests of the social wasp, Polistes carolina. Using 26 h of videotapes of natural nests we observed 2,093 feedings of specific larvae by these adults and found that they
did not preferentially feed their own progeny. Instead feedings were distributed to progeny as predicted based on their frequency
in the nest. The absence of nepotism towards closest kin within colonies in this system is likely to promote colony harmony.
Received: 24 January 2000 / Accepted in revised form: 30 March 2000 相似文献
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M. T. Henshaw J. E. Strassmann D. C. Queller 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2000,48(6):478-483
When cooperation is based on shared genetic interests, as in most social insect colonies, mechanisms which increase the genetic
similarity of group members may help to maintain sociality. Such mechanisms can be especially important in colonies with many
queens because within-colony relatedness drops quickly as queen number increases. Using microsatellite markers, we examined
the Old World, multiple-queen, swarm-founding wasp Polybioides tabidus which belongs to the ropalidiine tribe, and found that relatedness among the workers was four times higher than what would
be expected based on queen number alone. Relatedness was elevated by a pattern of queen production known as cyclical oligogyny,
under which, queen number varies, and daughter queens are produced only after the number of old queens has reduced to one
or a very few. As a result, the queens are highly related, often as full sisters, elevating relatedness among their progeny,
the workers. This pattern of queen production is driven by collective worker control of the sex ratios. Workers are three
times more highly related to females than to males in colonies with a single queen while they are more equally related to
males and females in colonies with more queens. As a result of this difference, workers will prefer to produce new queens
in colonies with a single queen and males in colonies with many queens. Cyclical oligogyny has also evolved independently
in another group of swarm-founding wasps, the Neotropical epiponine wasps, suggesting that collective worker control of sex
ratios is widespread in polistine wasps.
Received: 22 May 2000 / Revised: 24 August 2000 / Accepted: 4 September 2000 相似文献
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Owen M. Gilbert Jennie J. Kuzdzal-Fick David C. Queller Joan E. Strassmann 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2012,66(9):1291-1296
Social amoebae aggregate to form a multicellular slug that migrates some distance. Most species produce a stalk during migration, but some do not. We show that Dictyostelium giganteum, a species that produces stalk during migration, is able to traverse small gaps and utilize bacterial resources following gap traversal by shedding live cells. In contrast, we found that Dictyostelium discoideum, a species that does not produce stalk during migration, can traverse gaps only when in the presence of other species’ stalks or other thin filaments. These findings suggest that production of stalk during migration allows traversal of gaps that commonly occurs in soil and leaf litter. Considering the functional consequences of a stalked migration may be important for explaining the evolutionary maintenance or loss of a stalked migration. 相似文献
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J. E. Strassmann Carlos R. Solís C. R. Hughes Keith F. Goodnight David C. Queller 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1997,40(2):71-77
Colonies of social insects are sometimes viewed as superorganisms. The birth, reproduction, and death of colonies can be studied with demographic measures analogous to those normally applied to individuals, but two additional questions arise. First, how do adaptive colony demographies arise from individual behaviors? Second, since these superorganisms are made up of genetically distinct individuals, do conflicts within the colony sometimes modify and upset optima for colonies? The interplay between individual and superindividual or colony interests appears to be particularly complex in neotropical, swarm-founding, epiponine wasps such as Parachartergus colobopterus. In a long-term study of this species, we censused 286 nests to study colony-level reproduction and survivorship and evaluated individual-level factors by assessing genetic relatedness and queen production. Colony survivorship followed a negative exponential curve very closely, indicating type II survivorship. This pattern is defined by constant mortality across ages and is more characteristic of birds and other vertebrates than of insects. Individual colonies are long-lived, lasting an average of 347 days, with a maximum of over 4.5 years. The low and constant levels of colony mortality arise in part from colony initiation by swarming, nesting on protected substrates, and an unusual expandable nest structure. The ability to requeen rapidly was also important; relatedness data suggest that colonies requeen on average once every 9–12 months. We studied whether colony optima with respect to the timing of reproduction could be upset by individual worker interests. In this species, colonies are normally polygynous but new queens are produced only after a colony reaches the monogynous state, a result which is in accord with the genetic interests of workers. Therefore colony worker interests might drive colonies to reproduce whenever queen number happens to cycled down to one rather than at the season that is otherwise optimal. However, we found reproduction to be heavily concentrated in the rainy season. The number of new colonies peaked in this season as did the percentages of males and queens. Relatedness among workers reached a seasonal low of 0.21–0.27, reflecting the higher numbers of laying queens. This seasonality was achieved in part by a modest degree of synchrony in the queen reduction cycle. Worker relatedness reached peaks of around 0.4 in the dry season, reflecting a decrease to a harmonic mean queen number of about 2.5. Thus, a significant number of colonies must be approaching monogyny entering the rainy season. Coupled with polygynous colonies rearing only males (split sex ratios), this makes it possible for a colony cycle driven by selfish worker interests to be consistent with concentrating colony reproduction during a favorable season. 相似文献
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R. Cervo F. R. Dani C. Cotoneschi C. Scala I. Lotti J. E. Strassmann D. C. Queller S. Turillazzi 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(8):1319-1331
A challenge for parasites is how to evade the sophisticated detection and rejection abilities of potential hosts. Many studies
have shown how insect social parasites overcome host recognition systems and successfully enter host colonies. However, once
a social parasite has successfully usurped an alien nest, its brood still face the challenge of avoiding host recognition.
How immature stages of parasites fool the hosts has been little studied in social insects, though this has been deeply investigated
in birds. We look at how larvae of the paper wasp obligate social parasite Polistes sulcifer fool their hosts. We focus on cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs), which are keys for adult recognition, and use behavioral recognition
assays. Parasite larvae might camouflage themselves either by underproducing CHCs (odorless hypothesis) or by acquiring a
chemical profile that matches that of their hosts. GC/MS analyses show that parasite larvae do not have lower levels of CHCs
and that their CHCs profile is similar to the host larval profile but shows a reduced colony specificity. Behavioral tests
show that the hosts discriminate against alien conspecific larvae from different colonies but are more tolerant towards parasite
larvae. Our results demonstrate that parasite larvae have evolved a host larval profile, which overcomes the host colony recognition
system probably because of the lower proportion of branched compounds compared to host larvae. In some ways, this is a similar
hypothesis to the odorless hypothesis, but it assumes that the parasite larvae are covered by a chemical blend that is not
meaningful to the host. 相似文献
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