Behavioral plasticity: Levels of sociality in bees

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0041423669     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00571-2     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Richards, M. H, von Wettberg, E. J., and Rutgers, A. C. (2003). A novel social polymorphism in a primitively eusocial bee. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 7175-7180.
2. Packer, L. (1993). Multiple-foundress associations in sweat bees. In Queen Number and Sociality in Insect. L. Keller, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 215-233.
3. Richards, M. H. and Packer, L. (1994). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 34, 385-391.
4. Keller, L., and Ross K.G. (1998). Selfish genes: a green beard in the red fire ant. Nature 394, 573-575.
5. Ross, K.G., and Keller, L. (1998). Genetic control of social organization in an ant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95, 14232-14237.
6. Krieger, M.J.B, and Ross, K.G. (2002). Identification of a major gene regulating complex social behavior. Science 295, 328-332.
7. Helms Cahan, S., Parker, J. D., Rissing, S. W., Johnson, R.A., Polony, T.S., Weiser, M.D., and Smith, D.R. (2002). Extreme genetic differences between queens and workers in hybridizing Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 269, 1871-1877.
8. Julian, G.E., Fewell, J.H., Gadau, J., Johnson, R.A., and Larrabee, D. (2002). Genetic determination of the queen caste in an ant hybrid zone. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 8157-8160.
9. Volny, V.P., and Gordon, D M. (2002). Genetic basis for queen-worker dimorphism in a social insect. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 6108-6111.
10. Helms Cahan, S and Keller, L. (2003). Complex origin of genetic caste determination in harvester ants. Nature, in press.
11. Lin, N. and Michener, C. (1972). Evolution of eusociality in insects. Q. Rev. Biol. 47, 131-159.
12. Bernasconi, G. and Strassmann J.E. (1999) Cooperation among unrelated individuals the ant foundress case. Trends Ecol. Evol. 14, 477-482.
13. Reeve, H.K. and Keller, L. (1995). Partitioning of reproduction in mother-daughter versus sibling associations: a test of optimality skew theory. Am. Nat. 145, 119-132.
14. Heinze, J. and Keller, L. (2000). Alternative reproductive strategies: a queen perspective in ants. Trends Ecol. Evol. 15, 508-512.