Undertaking specialization in the desert leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 437-442

  Julian, Glennis E ^a   Cahan, Sara ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; SPECIALIZATION;

ACROMYRMEX VERSICOLOR; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 0032776002     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1184     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bourke A. F. G., Franks N. R. Social Evolution in Ants. 1995;Princeton University Press, Princeton.
2. Carlin N. F., Reeve H. K., Cover S. F. Kin discrimination and division of labour among matrilines in the polygynous carpenter ant, Camponatus plantus. Keller L. Queen Number and Sociality in Insects. 1993;362-401 Oxford University Press, Oxford.
3. Franks N. R., Tofts C. Foraging for work: how tasks allocate workers. Animal Behaviour. 48:1994;470-472.
4. Gordon D. M. Caste and change in social insects. Harvey P. H., Partridge L. Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology. 1989;55-72 Oxford University Press, Oxford.
5. Gordon D. M. The organization of work in social insect colonies. Nature. 380:1996;121-124.
6. Howard D. F., Tschinkel W. R. Aspects of necrophoric behavior in the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. Behaviour. 56:1976;157-180.
7. Huang Z.-Y., Robinson G. E. Honeybee colony integration: worker-worker interactions mediate hormonally regulated plasticity in division of labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 89:1992;11 726-11 729.
8. Moore A. J., Breed M. D., Moore M. J. The guard honeybee: ontogeny and behavioral variability of workers performing a specialized task. Animal Behaviour. 35:1987;1159-1167.
9. O'Donnell S., Jeanne R. L. Forager specialization and the control of nest repair in Polybia occidentalis Olivier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 27:1990;359-364.
10. Oster G. F., Wilson E. O. Caste and Ecology in Social Insects. 1978;Princeton University Press, Princeton.
11. Page R. E., Robinson G. E. The genetics of division of labour in honeybee colonies. Advances in Insect Physiology. 35:1991;117-169.
12. Robinson G. E. Regulation of division of labor in insect societies. Annual review of Entomology. 37:1992;637-665.
13. Robinson G. E., Page R. E. Jr. Genetic determination of guarding and undertaking in honeybee colonies. Nature. 333:1988;356-358.
14. Robinson G. E., Page R. E. Jr. Genotypic constraints on plasticity for corpse removal in honey bee colonies. Animal Behaviour. 49:1995;867-876.
15. Robinson G. E., Page R. E. Jr, Huang Z.-Y. Temporal polyethism in social insects is a developmental process. Animal Behaviour. 48:1994;467-469.
16. Seeley T. D. Adaptive significance of the age polyethism schedule in honeybee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 11:1982;287-293.
17. Sendova-Franks A. B., Franks N. R. Division of labour in a crisis: task allocation during colony emigration in the ant Leptothorax unifasciatus (Latr.). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 36:1995;269-282.
18. Snyder L. E. Non-random behavioural interactions among genetic subgroups in a polygynous ant. Animal Behaviour. 46:1993;431-439.
19. Stuart R. J., Page R. E. Jr. Genetic component to division of labor among workers of a leptothoracine ant. Naturwissenschaften. 78:1991;375-377.
20. Tofts C., Franks N. R. Doing the right thing: ants, honeybees and naked mole-rats. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 7:1992;346-349.
21. Trumbo S. T., Robinson G. E. Learning and task interference by corpse-removal specialists in honey bee colonies. Ethology. 103:1997;966-975.
22. Trumbo S. T., Huang Z.-Y., Robinson G. E. Division of labor between undertaker specialists and other middle-aged workers in honeybee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 41:1997;151-163.
23. Visscher P. K. The honey bee way of death: necrophoric behavior in Apis mellifera. Animal Behavior. 31:1983;1070-1076.
24. Wilson E. O. The Insect Societies. 1971;Belknap Press, Cambridge.
25. Wilson E. O., Durlach N. E., Roth L. M. Chemical releasers of necrophoric behavior in ants. Psyche. 65:1958;108-114.