Food from seed-dispersal mutualism shifts sex ratios in colonies of the ant Aphaenogaster rudis

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 734-739

  Morales, Manuel A ^a,b   Heithaus, E Raymond ^a  

^a KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Aphaenogaster rudis; Elaiosome as food source; Field experiment; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Mutualism; Myrmecochory; Reproductive investment ratios; Seed dispersal; Sex ratios; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ANT; MUTUALISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALIA; APHAENOGASTER; APHAENOGASTER RUDIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; SANGUINARIA; SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0031852663     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0734:ffsdms]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Backus, V. L., and J. M. Herbers. 1992. Sexual allocation ratios in forest ants: food limitation does not explain observed patterns. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 30:425-429.
2. Beattie, A. J. 1985. The evolutionary ecology of ant-plant mutualisms. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
3. _. 1991. Problems outstanding in ant-plant interaction research. Pages 559-576 in C. R. Huxley and D. F. Cutler, editors. Ant-plant interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
4. Berg, R. Y. 1975. Myrmecochorous plants in Australia and their dispersal by ants. Australian Journal of Botany 62:714-722.
5. Bourke, A. F. G., and N. R. Franks. 1995. Social evolution in ants. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
6. Brew, C. R., D. J. O'Dowd, and I. D. Rae. 1989. Seed dispersal by ants: behavior-releasing compounds in elaiosomes. Oecologia 80:490-497.
7. Brian, M. V., R. T. Clarke, and R. M. Jones. 1981. A numerical model of an ant society. Journal of Animal Ecology 50:387-405.
8. Crozier, R. H. 1973. Apparent differential selection at an isozyme locus between queens and workers of the ant Aphaenogaster rudis. Genetics 73:313-318.
9. Culver, D. C., and A. J. Beattie. 1980. The fate of Viola seeds dispersed by ants. American Journal of Botany 67: 710-714.
10. Cummings, K., and E. R. Heithaus. 1992. Changing response of ants to myrmecochorous seeds. Ohio Journal of Science 92:59.
11. Cushman, J. H., and A. J. Beattie. 1991. Mutualisms: assessing the benefits to hosts and visitors. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6:193-195.
12. Cushman, J. H., V. K. Rashbrook, and A. J. Beattie. 1994. Assessing benefits to both participants in a lycaenid-ant association. Ecology 75:1031-1041.
13. Davidson, D. W., R. S. Inouye, and J. H. Brown. 1984. Granivory in a desert ecosystem: experimental evidence for indirect facilitation of ants by rodents. Ecology 65: 1780-1786.
14. Davidson, D. W., D. A. Samson, and R. S. Inouye. 1985. Granivory in the Chihuahuan Desert: interactions within and between trophic levels. Ecology 66:486-502.
15. Deslippe, R. J., and R. Savolainen. 1995. Sex investment in a social insect: the proximate role of food. Ecology 76:375-382.
16. Fiedler, K., and C. Saam. 1995. Ants benefit from attending facultatively myrmecophilous Lycaenidae caterpillars: evidence from a survival study. Oecologia 104: 316-322.
17. Gunther, R. W., and J. Lanza, 1989. Variation in attractiveness of Trillium diaspores to a seed-dispersing ant. American Midland Naturalist 122:321-328.
18. Handel, S. N. 1978. The competitive relationship of three woodland sedges and its bearing on the evolution of ant-dispersal of Carex pedunculata. Evolution 32:151-163.
19. Headley, A. E. 1949. A population study of the ant Aphaenogaster fulva ssp. aquia Buckley (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42:265-272.
20. Herbers, J. M. 1984. Queen-worker conflict and eusocial evolution in a polygynous ant species. Evolution 38: 631-643.
21. Heithaus, E. R. 1981. Seed predation by rodents on three ant-dispersed plants. Ecology 62:136-145.
22. _. 1986. Seed dispersal mutualism and the population density of Asarum canadense, an ant-dispersed plant. Pages 199-210 in A. Estrada, and E. A. Fleming, editors. Frugivores and seed dispersal. Dr W. Junk, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
23. Hölldobler, B., and E. O. Wilson. 1990. The ants. Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
24. Liu, S. Y., and E. R. Heithaus. 1993. Carrying response and satiation of ants to seeds and insects. Ohio Journal of Science 93:46.
25. Marshall, D. L., A. J. Beattie, and W. E. Bollenbacher. 1979. Evidence for diglycerides as attractants in an ant-seed interaction. Journal of Chemical Ecology 5:335-344.
26. Nash, D. R. 1989. Cost-benefit analysis of a mutualism between lycaenid butterflies and ants. Dissertation. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
27. Nonacs, P. 1986a. Sex-ratio determination within colonies of ants. Evolution 40:199-204.
28. _. 1986b. Ant reproductive strategies and sex allocation theory. Quarterly Review of Biology. 61:1-21.
29. Pudlo, R. J., A. J. Beattie, and D. C. Culver. 1980. Population consequences of changes in an ant-seed mutualism in Sanguinaria canadensis. Oecologia 146:32-37.
30. Rice, S. D., and E. R. Heithaus. 1993. Aphaenogaster rudis response to oleic acid and an evaluation of satiation effect on seed dispersal. Ohio Journal of Science 93:46.
31. Smith, B. H., C. E. deRivera, L. Bridgman, and J. J. Woida. 1989. Frequency-dependent seed dispersal by ants of two deciduous forest herbs. Ecology 70:1645-1648.
32. Southerland, M. T. 1988. The effects of temperature and food on the growth of laboratory colonies of Aphaenogaster rudis Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 35:305-309.
33. StatSoft 1995. STATISTICA for Windows Release 5.0. StatSoft, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
34. Sundström, L. 1994. Sex ratio bias, relatedness asymmetry and queen mating frequency in ants. Nature 367: 266-268.
35. Talbot, M. 1951. Populations and hibernating conditions of the ant Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) rudis Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 44:302-307.
36. Trivers, R. L., and H. Hare. 1976. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insects. Science 191:249-263.
37. Westoby, M., L. Hughes, and B. L. Rice. 1991. Seed dispersal by ants; comparing infertile with fertile soils. Pages 434-447 in C. R. Huxley and D. F. Cutler, editors. Ant-plant interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.