Cuticular hydrocarbons correlated with reproductive status in a queenless ant

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1426, 1999, Pages 1323-1327

  Peeters, Christian ^a,c   Monnin, Thibaud ^a,d   Malosse, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dinoponera quadriceps; Dominance; Oogenesis; Pheromones; Ponerinae; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

9 HENTRIACONTENE; HYDROCARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANT; HYDROCARBON; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WORK; WORKER;

ANIMALIA; DINOPONERA QUADRICEPS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PONERINAE;

EID: 0033532967     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0782     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Arthur, C. L. & Pawliszyn, J. 1990 Solid phase microextraction with thermal desorption using fused silica optic fibers. Analyt. Chem. 62, 656.
2. Ayasse, M., Marlovits, T., Tengö, J., Taghizadeh, T. & Francke, W. 1995 Are there pheromonal dominance signals in the bumblebee Bombus hypnorum L (Hymenoptera, Apidae)? Apidologie 26, 163-180.
3. Bonavita-Cougourdan, A., Theraulaz, G., Bagnères, A.-G., Roux, M., Pratte, M., Provost, E. & Clément, J.-L. 1991 Cuticular hydrocarbons, social organization and ovarian development in a polistine wasp: Polistes dominulus Christ. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B100, 667-680.
4. Bourke, A. F. G. & Franks, N. R. 1995 Social evolution in ants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
5. Breed, M. D. & Gamboa, G. J. 1977 Behavioral control of workers by queens in primitively eusocial bees. Science 195, 694-696.
6. Dillwith, J. W., Adams, T. S. & Blomquist, G. 1983 Correlation of housefly sex-pheromone production with ovarian development. J. Insect Physiol. 29, 377-386.
7. Downing, H. A. & Jeanne, R. L. 1985 Communicalion of status in the social wasp Polistes fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Z. Tierpsychol. 67, 78-96.
8. Fletcher, D. J. & Ross, K. G. 1985 Regulation of reproduction in eusocial Hymenoptera. A. Rev. Entomol, 30, 319-343.
9. Grafen, A. 1990 Biological signals as handicaps, J. Theor, Biol. 144, 517-546.
10. Hölldobler, B. & Carlin, N. F. 1987 Anonymity and specificity in the chemical communication signals of social insects. J. Comp. Physiol. A161, 567-581.
11. Keller, L. & Nonacs, P. 1993 The role of queen pheromones in social insects: queen control or queen signal? Anim. Behav. 45, 787-794.
12. Monnin, T. & Peeters, C. 1997 Cannibalism of subordinates' eggs in the monogynous queenless ant Dinoponera quadriceps. Naturwissenschaften 84, 499-502.
13. Monnin, T. & Peeters, C. 1998 Monogyny and the regulation of worker mating in the queenless ant Dinoponera quadriceps. Anim. Behav. 55, 299-306.
14. Monnin, T. & Peeters, C. 1999 Dominance hierarchy and reproductive conflicts among subordinates in a monogynous queenless ant. Behav. Ecol. 10. (In the press.)
15. Monnin, T., Malosse, C. & Peeters, C. 1998 Solid-phase microextraction and cuticular hydrocarbon differences related to ovarian activity in the queenless ant Dinoponera quadriceps. J. Chem. Ecol. 24, 473-490.
16. Passera, L. 1980 La fonction inhibitrice des reines de la fourmi Piagiolepis pygmaea Latr.: rôle des phéromones. Ins. Soc. 27, 212-225.
17. Peeters, C. 1991 The occurrence of sexual reproduction among ant workers. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 44, 141-152.
18. Peeters, C. 1993 Monogyny and polygyny in ponerine ants with or without queens. In Queen number and sociality in insects (ed. L. Keller), pp. 234-261. Oxford University Press.
19. Premnath, S., Sinha, A. & Gadagkar, R. 1996 Dominance relationship in the establishment of reproductive division of labour in a primitively eusocial wasp (Ropalidia marginata). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 39, 125-132.
20. Ratnicks, F. L. 1988 Reproductive harmony via mutual policing by workers in eusocial Hymenoptera. Am. Nat. 12, 217-236.
21. Reeve, H. K. 1991 Polistes. In The social biology of wasps (ed. K. G. Ross & R. W. Matthews), pp. 99-148. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
22. Röseler, P.-F. 1991 Reproductive competition during colony establishment. In The social biology of wasps (ed. K. G. Ross & R. W. Matthews), pp. 309-335. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
23. Roseler, P.-F. & Van Honk, C. G. J. 1990 Castes and reproduction in bumblebees. In Social insects. An evolutionary approach to castes and reproduction (ed. W. Engels), pp. 147-166. Berlin: Springer.
24. Seeley, T. 1985 Honeybee ecology. A study of adaptation in social life. Princeton University Press.
25. Trabalon, M., Campan, M., Porcheron, P., Clément, J.-L., Baehr. J.-C., Morinière, M. & Joulie, C. 1990 Relationships among hormonal changes, cuticular hydrocarbons, and attractiveness during the first gonadotropic cycle of the female Calliphora vomitoria (Diptera). Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 80, 216-222.
26. Vargo, E. 1998 Primer pheromones in ants. In Pheromone communication in social insects ants, wasps, bees, and termites (ed. R. K. Vander Meer, M. D. Breed, K. E. Espelie & M. L. Winston), pp. 293-313. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
27. Visscher, P. K. & Dukas, R. 1995 Honey bees recognize development of nestmates' ovaries. Anim. Behav. 49, 542-554.
28. West-Eberhard, M. J. 1977 The establishment of reproductive dominance in social wasp colonies. Proc. Eighth Intl. Congress IUSSI, Wageningen, pp. 223-227. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation.
29. West-Eberhard, M. J. 1979 Sexual selection, social competition, and evolution. Proc. Am. Phil Soc. 123, 222-234.
30. Wilson, E. O. 1971 The insect societies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.