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Sitthipong Wongvilas Jessica S. Higgs Madeleine Beekman Wandee Wattanachaiyingcharoen Sureerat Deowanish Benjamin P. Oldroyd 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(7):1165-1170
The dwarf honeybees Apis florea and Apis andreniformis are sympatric in Southeast Asia. We examined undisturbed nests of both species finding that heterospecific workers are present
in some nests at low frequency. This suggested that workers may enter heterospecific nests as a prelude to reproductive parasitism.
To test this hypothesis, we created mixed-species colonies and determined the reproductive response of workers within them
based on molecular markers. In queenless colonies, workers of both species activated their ovaries at equal frequency. However,
the majority species, A. florea, had complete reproductive dominance over A. andreniformis, most likely because the A. florea workers recognised and removed heterospecific larvae. In queenright mixed-species colonies, workers responded to heterospecific
signals of the presence of the queen and did not activate their ovaries. Thus, despite predictions from kin selection theory
that workers would benefit from parasitising heterospecific nests, we find no evidence that selection has established a parasitic
strategy in these sibling species. 相似文献
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