Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant
Queens and female sexuals of the Southeast Asian ant Cardiocondyla sp. engage in aggressive interactions. By biting and violently antennating female sexuals, queens appear to prevent them from shedding their wings and presumably also from starting to lay haploid eggs. Aggression among dealate queens...
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| author | Hashim, Rosli Heinze, J. Yamauchi, K. Ishida, Y. |
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| description | Queens and female sexuals of the Southeast Asian ant Cardiocondyla sp. engage in aggressive interactions. By biting and violently antennating female sexuals, queens appear to prevent them from shedding their wings and presumably also from starting to lay haploid eggs. Aggression among dealate queens apparently results in the establishment of reproductive rank orders with considerable differences in offspring production among individual nestmate queens, as visualized by the pronounced color polymorphism of this taxon. Reproductive skew ranged from complete monopolization of both worker and female sexual production to more or less equal partitioning of reproduction. Division of reproduction was associated with variation in the location of queens close to or away from the center of the brood pile, which again appeared to be caused by queen-queen antagonism. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-83032019-01-24T09:11:25Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/8303/ Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant Hashim, Rosli Heinze, J. Yamauchi, K. Ishida, Y. QH301 Biology Queens and female sexuals of the Southeast Asian ant Cardiocondyla sp. engage in aggressive interactions. By biting and violently antennating female sexuals, queens appear to prevent them from shedding their wings and presumably also from starting to lay haploid eggs. Aggression among dealate queens apparently results in the establishment of reproductive rank orders with considerable differences in offspring production among individual nestmate queens, as visualized by the pronounced color polymorphism of this taxon. Reproductive skew ranged from complete monopolization of both worker and female sexual production to more or less equal partitioning of reproduction. Division of reproduction was associated with variation in the location of queens close to or away from the center of the brood pile, which again appeared to be caused by queen-queen antagonism. 2007 Article PeerReviewed Hashim, Rosli and Heinze, J. and Yamauchi, K. and Ishida, Y. (2007) Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant. Insectes Sociaux, 54 (3). pp. 268-274. ISSN 0020-1812, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-007-0941-x <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-007-0941-x>. http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00040-007-0941-x.pdf 10.1007/s00040-007-0941-x |
| spellingShingle | QH301 Biology Hashim, Rosli Heinze, J. Yamauchi, K. Ishida, Y. Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| title | Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| title_full | Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| title_fullStr | Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| title_full_unstemmed | Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| title_short | Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| title_sort | queen queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant |
| topic | QH301 Biology |
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