Stable relatedness structure of the large-colony swarm-founding wasp Polybia paulista

Kudô, Kazuyuki; Tsujita, Sumiko; Tsuchida, Koji; Goi, Wakana; Yamane, Seiki; Mateus, Sidnei; Ito, Yasuaki; Miyano, Shinya; Zucchi, Ronaldo

doi:10.1007/s00265-004-0903-5

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“…Because the effective queen number in P. paulista is the highest among known polygynous wasps (Kudô et al, 2005), we hypothesized that if recognition cues are genetic, colonies of this species would accept conspecifics at least from nearby alien colonies. Thus, our results suggest that each colony has the specific odor.…”

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“…This study was supported by fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (no. 02415) and the JSPS fellowships for research abroad to K. Kudô (2005).…”

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“…Colony size and the effective queen number contributing to produce workers in P. paulista are considerably larger than those in P. colobopterus (colony size: 3500 vs. 300 individuals, effective queen number: 21 vs. ca. 3 individuals) (Strassmann, 1991(Strassmann, , 1998Kudô et al, 2005). If recognition cues are genetic and a lack of nestmate recognition ability in P. colobopterus is due to the presence of many queens in each colony, it is expected that P. paulista also exhibits a lack of or weak nestmate recognition.…”

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Nestmate recognition in a neotropical polygynous wasp

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In social insects, nestmate recognition systems can be dynamic and modulated in response to various kinds of genetic and environmental cues. For example, multiple-queen colonies can possess weak recognition abilities relative to single-queen colonies, due to broader exposure to heritable and environmentally derived nestmate recognition cues. We conducted field experiments to examine nestmate recognition ability in a neotropical polygynous wasp, Polybia paulista. Despite the fact that the effective queen number in P. paulista is the highest ever recorded in polygynous wasps, this species exhibits a well functioning nestmate recognition system, which allows colony entry only to nestmate individuals. Similar to other social Hymenoptera, young wasps express colony specific chemical signatures within several days after emergence. This is the first study to show that the polygynous epiponine wasp is able to distinguish nestmates from non-nestmates.

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“…This study was supported by fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (no. 02415) and the JSPS fellowships for research abroad to K. Kudô (2005).…”

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Nestmate recognition in a neotropical polygynous wasp

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“…We are also grateful to four anonymous referees who made invaluable comments and suggestions for the improvement of the text. This study was supported by the JSPS fellowships for research abroad to K. Kudô (2005).…”

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“…Polybia paulista is one of the common polygynous, swarm-founding wasps in Brazil (Kudô et al 2005), and colonies of this species can potentially last for many years with continuous nesting (Simões & Mechi 1983). Kudô Nestmate recognition in a polygynous wasp and collaborators (2006,2007) recently tested the nestmate recognition ability of this species, and showed that P. paulista is accurately able to distinguish nestmates from non-nestmates despite the presence of a general trend that nestmate recognition is less developed in polygynous (multiple-queen) colonies than in monogynous (single-queen) colonies as a consequence of increased within-colony genetic variation in queen and worker-derived recognition cues (Hölldobler & Wilson 1977, Gastreich et al 1990, Morel et al 1990, Sundström 1997, Starks et al 1998, Vander Meer & Alonso 2002.…”

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