The role of queens in colonies of the swarm-founding wasp Parachartergus colobopterus

Herman, Rebecca A.; Queller, David C.; Strassmann, Joan E.

doi:10.1006/anbe.1999.1385

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“…An aggressive act involves one or more wasps aggressively chewing or pulling on a victim. The victim often responds by curling over on its side (Strassmann et al 1997;Herman et al 2000). Following 3 days of observation we replaced the envelope and left the colonies alone for 7 days.…”

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Caste totipotency and conflict in a large–colony social insect

Strassmann

Sullender

Queller

2002

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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In most social insects with large, complex colonies workers and queens are morphologically quite distinct. This means that caste determination must occur prior to adulthood. However workers and queens in the swarm-founding epiponine wasps are often morphologically indistinguishable, or nearly so, suggesting that caste determination in these wasps could be quite different. To determine the extent of caste lability in the epiponine, Parachartergus colobopterus, we removed all the queens from one colony and all but one from another colony. Worker aggression diminished after queen removal. A week later the colony with no queens had a new, young cohort of mated queens. These must have been either adults or pupae at the time of queen removal, and so could not have been fed any differently from workers. Relatedness patterns confirmed that these new queens would normally have been workers and not queens. A model of inclusive fitness interests shows that workers ought to suppress new queen production, except at low queen numbers, a prediction supported by our empirical results. The patterns of social conflict over queenship resulting from swarm founding in a many-queen society may help to explain the unusually weak caste differentiation in the epiponines.

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Caste totipotency and conflict in a large–colony social insect

Strassmann

Sullender

Queller

2002

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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“…However, as pointed out by Noll and Wenzel (2008) this reasoning is not so straightforward because in primitive social vespids females compete for reproduction, restraining these societies to solitary or short-term monogynic conditions. That is the opposite of what is seen in the Epiponini, in which queens are more tolerant (Simões 1977;Naumann 1970;Herman et al 2000). In this case, queens of epiponines seem similar to subordinates of Polistes that are tolerant of other's reproduction than the dominant, intolerant, monogynic queens of Polistes (Fig.…”

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"Marimbondos": a review on the neotropical swarm-founding polistines.

Noll¹

2013

Sociobiology

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Neotropical swarm-founding polistines, the Epiponini, compose a highly social tribe of vespids which displays several complex social characteristics, such as: intricate nest building, polygyny, swarm reproduction, and the absence of morphology caste discontinuities, a trait that would not be expected for a highly eusocial group. The biology of Epiponini will be reviewed, evidencing the scarcity of information for this group and also that not all social insects might fit in traditional theories for the evolution of social behavior.

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“…As operárias controlam a maioria das funções dentro das colônias e podem ter evoluído para maximizar seu fitness, ou seja, maximizar os interesses coletivos da casta, uma vez que são maioria dentro das colônias e podem estar em vantagem para regular a produção e seleção das rainhas (Hastings et al 1998, Herman et al 2000. (Fig.…”

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“…Um menor parentesco também poderia levar a conflitos pela postura de ovos de machos porque as operárias estão mais relacionadas com seus filhos do que com os filhos das outras fêmeas da colônia (Queller e Tóth 2002). Devido à possibilidade de existir tais conflitos, o controle reprodutivo dentro da colônia pode decorrer tanto das interações entre rainhas, como também pelas interações entre rainhas e operárias (Hastings et al 1998, Herman et al 2000, Strassmann et al 2002, Noll e Wenzel 2008.…”

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“…Além disso, são poucos os estudos comportamentais para os Epiponini, especialmente aqueles sobre as interações entre as fêmeas reprodutivas (rainhas) e as não reprodutivas (operárias e intermediárias) (Naumann, 1970;West-Eberhard, 1973, 1981Herman et al, 2000;Nascimento et al, 2004;Mateus, 2005). É importante entender as interações entre as fêmeas da colônia, pois para os Polistinae a única forma de separar as fêmeas reprodutoras das não reprodutoras é pelo comportamento, ou pelo grau de desenvolvimento dos ovários .…”

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Comportamento, atividade e interações sociais entre rainhas e operárias de Metapolybia docilis (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini)

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The role of queens in colonies of the swarm-founding wasp Parachartergus colobopterus

Cited by 27 publications

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Caste totipotency and conflict in a large–colony social insect

Caste totipotency and conflict in a large–colony social insect

"Marimbondos": a review on the neotropical swarm-founding polistines.

Comportamento, atividade e interações sociais entre rainhas e operárias de Metapolybia docilis (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini)

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