Nestmate recognition in social wasps: the origin and acquisition of recognition odours

Gamboa, George J.; Reeve, H. Kern; Ferguson, I. Deanna; Wacker, Tracy L.

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(86)80053-7

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“…Therefore, as already discussed in other studies (Gamboa et al, 1986;Singer et al, 1998;Dapporto et al, 2004a;Dapporto et al, 2004b), it appears that both genetic and environmental factors are important to explain the variation of these compounds in these samples.…”

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“…Gamboa et al (1986), studying P. fuscatus, discusses the importance of exogenous factors to determine the CHs profile, especially the diet. Furthermore, studies performed with ants show that the quantity and quality of food is also responsible for the changes of CHs, since influences the chemical recognition during intraspecific interactions in ants (Le Moli et al, 1992;Richard et al, 2004;Liang & Silverman, 2000;Sorvari et al, 2008), suggesting that diet is one of the factors that certainly contribute to the construction of the chemical signature of the colony.…”

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Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

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An important attribute of the evolution and maintenance of sociality in insects is their ability to distinguish members of their own colonies by means of chemical signals during their interactions. Of this type of signals, the cuticular hydrocarbons, responsible among other functions, for intraspecific recognition stand out. Linear alkanes are indicated as the class of compounds that would be most involved in water retention in the body of insects, however, some studies have investigated their role as mediators of interactions. Thus it is possible that there is significant intraspecific variation of its composition, so the objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that linear alkanes vary significantly among populations, castes and sexes, as well as between newly emerged females of different ages of the Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán 1949 wasp. The samples were analyzed by gas chromatography with flame ionization detector and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. The results show that there is a significant variation between the chemical cuticular profiles of samples from different populations, as well as between castes, sex and newly emergent workers of different ages. Therefore, it is possible to infer that this class of compounds may vary according to genetic differences between populations, but also by different environmental conditions. The differences between castes, sex and ages suggest that these compounds may also be involved in mediating interactions between nestmates.

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Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

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“…In our study, this correlation was very strong ( , ), so we followed 2 x p 10.38 P ! .001 1 previous studies in classing darts as aggressive (Gamboa et al 1986;Reeve and Gamboa 1987;Reeve andNonacs 1992, 1997;Tibbets and Reeve 2000;Nonacs et al 2004). We scored aggressive acts as independent only if no other aggression had occurred during the previous 2 s between the two individuals involved; sometimes two individuals rapidly exchanged multiple aggressive acts for a second or more, but we scored these as a single act attributed to the initiator of the exchange.…”

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Individual Variation in Social Aggression and the Probability of Inheritance: Theory and a Field Test

Cant¹,

Llop²,

Field³

2006

The American Naturalist

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Recent theory suggests that much of the wide variation in individual behavior that exists within cooperative animal societies can be explained by variation in the future direct component of fitness, or the probability of inheritance. Here we develop two models to explore the effect of variation in future fitness on social aggression. The models predict that rates of aggression will be highest toward the front of the queue to inherit and will be higher in larger, more productive groups. A third prediction is that, in seasonal animals, aggression will increase as the time available to inherit the breeding position runs out. We tested these predictions using a model social species, the paper wasp Polistes dominulus. We found that rates of both aggressive "displays" (aimed at individuals of lower rank) and aggressive "tests" (aimed at individuals of higher rank) decreased down the hierarchy, as predicted by our models. The only other significant factor affecting aggression rates was date, with more aggression observed later in the season, also as predicted. Variation in future fitness due to inheritance rank is the hidden factor accounting for much of the variation in aggressiveness among apparently equivalent individuals in this species.

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“…Phenotypic recognition cues must be reliable, and they originate from either the environment (diet, nesting substrate), endogenous sources (genetically determined), or both (Breed and Bennett, 1987;Vander Meer and Morel, 1998). The template represents a constantly changing memory pattern of the colony's recognition cues, and the process of cue-template matching guides a behavioral response, usually acceptance or rejection of the encountered individual (Reeve, 1989;Gamboa et al, 1986). In addition, recognition of phenotypic cues by allele matching (recognition-allele mechanism), may also occur (Keller and Ross, 1998).…”

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Cuticular hydrocarbons as queen adoption cues in the invasive Argentine ant

Vásquez

Schal

Silverman

2008

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYIn social insects, individuals typically recognize and behave aggressively towards alien conspecifics, thereby maintaining colony integrity. This is presumably achieved via a nestmate recognition system in which cuticular compounds, usually cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC), of genetic and/or environmental origin serve as recognition cues. Most invasive populations of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr), display minimal nestmate-non-nestmate discrimination, resulting in low levels of intraspecific aggression allowing free movement of workers and queens among nests. However, invasive L. humile in the southeastern United States show relatively high levels of intraspecific aggression, and selectively adopt non-nestmate queens. Using behavioral assays and gas chromatography, we found an association between non-nestmate queen adoption and similarity of the CHC profiles of adopted and host colony queens. Also, nestmate and non-nestmate queen CHC profiles became more similar after adoption by queenless colonies. Furthermore, queens treated with non-nestmate queen CHC had distinct CHC profiles and were generally attacked by nestmate workers. We suggest that in L. humile, CHC are used as queen recognition cues, and that queen recognition errors are more likely to occur when the CHC profiles of non-nestmate and host colony queens are similar. Our findings provide further evidence for the complex and dynamic nature of L. humile nestmate discrimination, which may in part underlie the success of introduced populations of this invasive ant.

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Nestmate recognition in social wasps: the origin and acquisition of recognition odours

Cited by 163 publications

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Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

Individual Variation in Social Aggression and the Probability of Inheritance: Theory and a Field Test

Cuticular hydrocarbons as queen adoption cues in the invasive Argentine ant

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