Within-group aggression and the value of group members: Theory and a field test with social wasps

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-82

  Reeve, Hudson Kern ^a   Nonacs, Peter ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; animal societies; conflict; cooperation; eusociality; Polistes; punishment; social contracts; social wasps

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; PAPER WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES FUSCATUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0030618888     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/8.1.75     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Archer J, 1988. The behavioural biology of aggression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Clutton-Brock TH, Parker GA, 1994. Punishment in animal societies. Nature 373:209-216.
3. Enquist M, Leimar O, 1990. On the evolution of fatal fighting. Anim Behav 39:1-9.
4. Gamboa GJ, Stump KA, in press. The timing of conflict and cooperation among cofoundresses of the social wasp, Polistes. fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Can J Zool.
5. Grafen A, 1984. Natural selection, kin selection and group selection. In: Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary approach, 2nd ed (Krebs JR, Davies NB, eds). Sunderland: Sinauer Associates; 62-89.
6. Hamilton WD, 1964a. The genetical evolution of social behavior, I. J Theoret Biol 7:1-16.
7. Hamilton WD, 1964b. The genetical evolution of social behavior, II. J Theoret Biol 7:17-52.
8. Marsden JE, Tromba AJ, 1981. Vector calculus, 2nd ed. New York: Freeman.
9. Nonacs P, Reeve HK, 1995. The ecology of cooperation in social wasps: causes and consequences of alternative reproductive decisions. Ecology 76:953-967.
10. Noonan KM, 1981. Individual strategies of inclusive-fitness-maximizing in Polistes fuscatus foundresses. In: Natural selection and social behavior (Alexander RD, Tinkle DW, eds). New York: Chiron Press; 18-44.
11. Parker GA, 1989. Hamilton's rule and conditionality. Ethology, ecology, and evolution. 1:95-211.
12. Queller DC, 1989. The evolution of cusociality: reproductive head starts of workers. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86:3224-3226.
13. Queller DC, 1994. Extended parental care and the origin of eusociality. Proc R Soc of Lond B 256:105-111.
14. Reeve HK, in press. Acting for the good of others: kinship and reciprocity, with some new twists. In: Evolution and human behavior (Crawford C, Krebs D, eds). Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
15. Reeve HK, 1991. Polistes. In: The social biology of wasps (Ross K, Matthews R, eds). Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 99-148.
16. Reeve, HK, 1992. Queen activation of lazy workers in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat. Nature 358:147-149.
17. Reeve HK, Gamboa, GJ, 1983. Colony activity integration in primitively eusocial wasps: the role of the queen (Polistes fuscatus, Hymenoptera:Vespidae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 13:63-74.
18. Reeve HK, Nonacs P, 1992. Social contracts in wasp societies. Nature 359:823-825.
19. Reeve HK, Nonacs P, 1993. Weak queen or social contract? Reply. Nature 363:503.
20. Reeve HK, Sherman PW, 1991. Intra-colonial aggression and nepotism by the breeding female naked mole-rat. In: The biology of the naked mole-rat (Sherman PW, Jarvis JUM, and Alexander RD, eds). Princeton: Princeton University Press; 337-357.
21. Strassmann JE, Queller DC, 1989. Ecological determinants of social evolution. In: The genetics of social evolution (Breed MD, Page RE, eds). Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; 81-101.
22. West-Eberhard MJ, 1969. The social biology of polistine wasps. Univ Mich Mus Zool Misc Publ 140:1-101
23. West-Eberhard MJ, 1981. Intragroup selection and the evolution of insect societies, pp. 3-17. In Natural selection and social behavior (Alexander RD, Tinkle DW, eds). New York: Chiron Press; 3-17.
24. Williams DA, Lawton MF, and Lawton RO, 1994. Population growth, range expansion, and competition in the cooperatively breeding brown-jay, Cyanocorax mono. Anim Behav 48:309-322.