Recognition of former nestmates during colony founding by the social wasp Polistes fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Post, David C.; Jeanne, Robert L.

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“…Similar results have been obtained with P.fuscatus where sample sizes were larger and observations blind (Bornais et al 1983). Using Pi fuscatus, Post and Jeanne (1982) went a step further and showed that females overwintered in the laboratory preferentially associated with former nest mates even if they had not hibernated along with them and that they do not associate with non nest mates even if they had. been forced to hibernate with them.…”

Section: Social Waspssupporting

confidence: 70%

“…When paired with nestmate and non nestmate females,males seem to choose their mates without regard torelatedness. This has been shown both by visual observation of mating behaviour (Larch and Gamboa 1981) as well as by actual assessment of insemination (Post and Jeanne 1982). The males also do not discriminate between nestmate and non nestmate males, as shown by Ryan et al (1984) in experiments where, spatial associations were observed in artificial associations of males in the lab.…”

Section: Mate Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 56%

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Kin recognition in social insects and other animals—A review of recent findings and a consideration of their relevance for the theory of kin selection

Gadagkar

1985

Proc Ani Sci

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Kin selection is a widely invoked mechanism to explain the origin and evolution of social behaviour in animals. Proponents of the theory of kin selection place great emphasis on the correlation between asymmetries in genetic relatedness created by haplodiploidy and the multiple origins ofeusociality in the order Hymenoptera. The fact that a female is more closely related genetically to her full sister than to her daughters makes it more profitable for a Hymenopteran female, in terms of inclusive fitness, to raise full sisters rather than daughters or full siblings with a female biased sex ratio rather than offspring. This is sometimes referred to as the haplodiploidy hypothesis. In reality however, genetic relatedness between workers in social insect colonies and the reproductive brood they rear is far below ()75, the value expected for full sisters, often below (}5 the value expected between mother and daughter and, not uncommonly, approaching zero. Such values are on account of queen turnover, multiple mating by queens or polygyny. This situation raises doubts regarding the haplodiploidy hypothesis unless workers can discriminate between full and half sisters and preferentially direct their altruism towards their full sisters only. This would still mean an effective coefficient of genetic relatedness of(}75 between altruist and recipient. For this to be possible however, workers should be able to recognise their full sisters inspite of growing up with and being habituated to an assortment of full sisters, half sisters and perhaps other even less related individuals. Even outside the Hymenoptera, social animals may find themselves growing up together in the company of individuals ofvarying degrees of relatedness. An ability to tell apart the more and less related individuals under such circumstances should favour kin selection.Much effort is now going into assessing the abilities of animals to discriminate between kin and non kin. In every case studied carefully so far, animals appear to be capable of recognising their kin. Ants, wasps, sweat bees, honey bees, frogs, toads, mice, rats, voles, squirrels, monkeys and even humans appear to be able to recognise their kin in one circumstance or another. An ability to recognize true genetic relatedness requires genetically specified recognition labels and these must therefore be present. Recent findings of the role of the histocompatibility system provides some clues to the possible nature of recognition labels. An ability to recognise full sisters for example, inspite of being habituated to full and half sisters requires not merely genetically specified labels but also recognition templates which are based on the characteristics of the individual animals making the recognition and not templates based on all animals one grows up with. Some animals such as honey bees, tadpoles and ground squirrels appear to have such templates but others such as sweat bees and some mice appear not to. It is entirely possible that our inability to devise natural enough assays for recogn...

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Section: Social Waspssupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Mate Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 56%

Kin recognition in social insects and other animals—A review of recent findings and a consideration of their relevance for the theory of kin selection

Gadagkar

1985

Proc Ani Sci

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“…Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Litte, 1977) Yes Polistes annularis (Strassmann, 1983) Yes P. bellicosus (Strassmann et al, 1987) Yes P. exclamans (Allen et al, 1982) Yes P. fuscatus (Klahn, 1979) Yes (Noonan, 1981) Yes (Post and Jeanne, 1982) Yes (Bornais et al, 1983) Yes P. gallicus (Pratte, 1982) No P. metricus (Ross and Gamboa, 1981) Yes…”

Section: Waspsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Competition and kin discrimination in colony founding by social Hymenoptera

Nonacs

1989

Evol Ecol

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SummaryAfter mating, queens of social wasp and ant species sometimes band together to start a new colony cooperatively. I assume these queens sequentially encounter potential nest sites that may or may not already contain a queen. Whether to remain at a given site or to leave in hopes of finding a better site is modelled using dynamic programming. The results suggest that discriminating competitive ability is more valuable than discriminating kinship. Wasps, which have a high survival rate in transitions between nest site encounters and in which pleometrosis seems to have a consistently high benefit, are predicted to discrirhinatc both competitive ability and kinship of potential partners. Ants, which have lower survivorship and variable benefits, are predicted to show conditional joining behavior (sometimes based on discriminating competitive ability, but almost never based on discriminating kinship). A survey of the litcrature supports the model with respect to the predictions on kin discrimination in both groups and on conditional joining behavior in ants. However, whether partners are joined based on perceptions of competitive ability needs more tests.

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“…(1) females are unable to distinguish between varying degrees of kinship (e.g., Pratte 1982;Queller et al, 1990; but see Bornais et al 1983;Greenberg 1979;Post and Jeanne 1982;Ross and Gamboa 1981), (2) females are forced to associate through environmental necessity (e.g., Herbers 1986) and full sisters are not available (Noonan 1981), and (3) associations of lower relatedness are in some way better than those of high r.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic relatedness and eusociality: parasite-mediated selection on the genetic composition of groups

Shykoff

Schmid‐Hempel

1991

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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Recognition of former nestmates during colony founding by the social wasp Polistes fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

Kin recognition in social insects and other animals—A review of recent findings and a consideration of their relevance for the theory of kin selection

Kin recognition in social insects and other animals—A review of recent findings and a consideration of their relevance for the theory of kin selection

Competition and kin discrimination in colony founding by social Hymenoptera

Genetic relatedness and eusociality: parasite-mediated selection on the genetic composition of groups

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