Some Agreement on Kin Selection and Eusociality?

Queller, David C.; Rong, Stephen; Liao, Xiaoyun

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“…The first is the publication of Nowak et al [4] (see also [5,6]). Personally, I have no basis to rule out the possibility that they may be right in their claim that the mathematics of inclusive fitness may be wrong or may have limited applicability [22] and there is no resolution in sight [21,23,24]. I am therefore more interested in their claim that old-fashioned, standard population genetic modelling can serve equally well (never mind whether better) in understanding the evolution of social behaviour.…”

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Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial waspRopalidia marginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection?

Gadagkar

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 18 to a theme issue 'The evolution of cooperation based on direct fitness benefits'. Ropalidia marginata is a primitively eusocial wasp widely distributed in peninsular India. Although solitary females found a small proportion of nests, the vast majority of new nests are founded by small groups of females. In such multiple foundress nests, a single dominant female functions as the queen and lays eggs, while the rest function as sterile workers and care for the queen's brood. Previous attempts to understand the evolution of social behaviour and altruism in this species have employed inclusive fitness theory (kin selection) as a guiding framework. Although inclusive fitness theory is quite successful in explaining the high propensity of the wasps to found nests in groups, several features of their social organization suggest that forces other than kin selection may also have played a significant role in the evolution of this species. These features include lowering of genetic relatedness owing to polyandry and serial polygyny, nest foundation by unrelated individuals, acceptance of young non-nest-mates, a combination of well-developed nest-mate recognition and lack of intra-colony kin recognition, a combination of meek and docile queens and a decentralized self-organized work force, long reproductive queues with cryptic heir designates and conflict-free queen succession, all resulting in extreme intra-colony cooperation and inter-colony conflict.

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Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial waspRopalidia marginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection?

Gadagkar

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Kin selection benefits related genes and improves inclusive fitness; this altruism is favored in two ways: kin recognition and viscous populations ( Hamilton, 1964 ). Most plants have limited dispersal, resulting in genetically structured populations within a small spatial scale ( Karban et al, 2015 ; Ehlers et al, 2016 ; Anten and Chen, 2021 ), leading to a high likelihood of interactions with related neighbors, and making kin recognition important ( Cheplick, 1992 ; Queller et al, 2015 ). Many previous studies provided evidence for kin recognition in plenty of plant species ( Dudley and File, 2007 ; Murphy and Dudley, 2009 ; Biedrzycki et al, 2010 ; Masclaux et al, 2010 ; Bhatt et al, 2011 ; Biernaskie, 2011 ; Simonsen et al, 2015 ; Zhang et al, 2016 ; Xu et al, 2021 ), and that showed kin recognition can act as a driver not only always reducing some competitive traits ( Dudley and File, 2007 ; Bhatt et al, 2011 ; Biernaskie, 2011 ; Crepy and Casal, 2015 ), but also sometimes increasing these competitive traits ( Milla et al, 2009 ; Murphy and Dudley, 2009 ; Masclaux et al, 2010 ; Mercer and Eppley, 2014 ).…”

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The effects of genetic distance, nutrient conditions, and recognition ways on outcomes of kin recognition in Glechoma longituba

Fan

Zhang

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Front. Plant Sci.

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Kin recognition might help plants decrease competitive cost and improve inclusive fitness with close genes; thus it might interact with environmental factors to affect communities. Whether and how various factors, such as the genetic distance of neighbors, environmental stressors, or the way a plant recognizes its neighbors, might modify plant growth strategies remains unclear. To answer these questions, we conducted experiments in which ramets of a clonal plant, Glechoma longituba, were grown adjacent to different genetically related neighbors (clone kin / close kin / distant kin) in different nutrient conditions (high / medium / low), or with only root exudates from pre-treatment in culture solution. By comparing competitive traits, we found that: (1) kin recognition in G. longituba was enhanced with closer genetic distance; (2) the outcomes of kin recognition were influenced by the extent of nutrient shortage; (3) kin recognition helped to alleviate the nutrient shortage effect; (4) kin recognition via root exudates affected only below-ground growth. Our results provide new insights on the potential for manipulating the outcome of kin recognition by altering neighbor genetic distance, nutrient conditions and recognition ways. Moreover, kin recognition can help plants mitigate the effects of nutrient shortage, with potential implications in agricultural research.

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Segerstråle

2016

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology

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Some Agreement on Kin Selection and Eusociality?

Abstract: The authors of "Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality" respond to objections raised by Martin Nowak and Benjamin Allen.

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Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial waspRopalidia marginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection?

Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial waspRopalidia marginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection?

The effects of genetic distance, nutrient conditions, and recognition ways on outcomes of kin recognition in Glechoma longituba

Sociobiology, History of

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