Lay eggs, live longer: Division of labor and life span in a clonal ant species

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2424-2429

  Hartmann, Anne ^a   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Division of labor; Life span; Platythyrea; Thelytokous ant

Indexed keywords

ANT; CASTE; LABOR DIVISION; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; REPRODUCTION; THELYTOKY;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PLATYTHYREA; PLATYTHYREA PUNCTATA;

EID: 0242494293     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00254.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Amdam, G. V., and S. W. Omholt. 2002. The regulatory anatomy of honeybee lifespan. J. Theor. Biol. 216:209-228.
2. Bier, K. 1954. Über den Einfluss der Königin auf die Arbeiterinnen Fertilität im Ameisenstaat. Insect. Soc. 1:7-19.
3. Bloch, G., D. W. Borst, Z. Y. Huang, G. E. Robinson, J. Cnaani, and A. Hefetz. 2000. Juvenile hormone titers, juvenile hormone biosynthesis, ovarian development and social environment in Bombus terrestris. J. Insect Physiol. 46:47-57.
4. Boomsma, J. J., and F. L. W. Ratnieks. 1996. Paternity in eusocial Hymenoptera. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London B Biol. Sci. 351:947-975.
5. Brosius, G., and F. Brosius. 1994. SPSS base system und professional statistics. Thomson Publishing, Bonn.
6. Chapman, T., J. Hulchings, and L. Partridge. 1993. No reduction in the cost of mating for Drosophila melanogaster females mating with spermless males. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 253:211-217.
7. Chapman, T., L. F. Liddle, K. J. M., W. M. F., and L. Partridge. 1995. Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products. Nature 373:241-244.
8. Chapuisat, M., and L. Keller. 2002. Division of labour influences the rate of ageing in weaver ant workers. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269:909-913.
9. Crespi, B. J. 1992. Cannibalism, ecology and evolution among diverse taxa. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
10. Estoup, A., M. Solignac, and J. M. Cornuet. 1994. Precise assessment of the number of patrilines and of genetic relatedness in honeybee colonies. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 258:1-7.
11. Fluri, P., M. Lüscher, H. Wille, and L. Gerig. 1982. Changes in weight of the pharyngeal gland and haemolymph titers of juvenile hormone, protein and vitellogenin in workers honey bees. J. Insect Physiol. 28:61-68.
12. Fowler, K., and L. Partridge. 1989. A cost of mating in female fruitflies. Nature 338:760-761.
13. Gems, D., and D. L. Riddle. 1996. Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans reduced by mating but not gamete production. Nature 379:723-725.
14. Gösswald, K., and K. Bier. 1953. Untersuchungen zur Kastendetermination in der Gattung Formica, 2:Die Aufzucht von Geschlechtstieren bei Formica rufa pratensis (Retz.). Zool. Anz. 151:126-134.
15. Hamilton, W. D. 1966. The moulding of senescence by natural selection. J. Theor. Biol. 12:12-45.
16. Hartfelder, K. 2000. Insect juvenile hormone:from "status quo" to high society. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 33:157-177.
17. Heinze, J., and B. Hölldobler. 1995. Thelytokous parthenogenesis and dominance hierarchies in the ponerine ant, Platythyrea punctata (F. Smith). Naturwissenschaften 82:40-41.
18. Heinze, J., S. Foitzik, and B. Oberstadt, 1999. A female caste specialized for the production of unfertilized eggs in the ant Crematogaster smithi. Naturwissenschaften 86:93-95.
19. Herman, W. S., and M. Tatar. 2001. Juvenile hormone regulation of longevity in the migratory monarch butterfly. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268:2509-2514.
20. Hölldobler, B., and E. O. Wilson. 1990. The ants. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
21. Jassim, O., Y. H. Zachary, and G. E. Robinson. 2000. Juvenile hormone profiles of worker honey bees, Apis mellifera, during normal and accelerated behavioural development. J. Insect Physiol. 46:243-249.
22. Kaatz, H.-H. 1988. Juvenilhormon-unabhängige Initiation und Regulation der Vitellogenin Synthese bei der Bienenkönigin (Apis mellifera L.). Verh. Dtsch. Zool. 81:272-273.
23. Keller, L. 1998. Queen lifespan and colony characteristics in ants and termites. Insect. Soc. 45:235-246.
24. Keller, L., and M. Genoud. 1997. Extraordinary lifespan in ants: a test of evolutionary theories of aging. Nature 389:958-960.
25. _. 1999. Evolutionary theories of aging. The need to understand the process of natural selection. Gerontology 45:336-338.
26. Liebig, J., J. Heinze, and B. Hölldobler. 1997. Trophallaxis and aggression in the ponerine ant, Ponera coarctata: implications for the evolution of liquid food exchange in the Hymenoptera. Ethology 103:707-722.
27. Lubbock, J. 1894. Ants, bees, wasps: a record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera. D. Appleton, New York.
28. Masuko, K. 1986. Larval hemolymph feeding: a nondestructive parental cannibalism in the primitive ant Amblyopone silvestrii Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 19:249-255.
29. Page, R. E., and C. Y.-S. Peng. 2001. Aging and development in social insects with emphasis on the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. Exp. Gerontol. 36:695-711.
30. Partridge, L., A. Green, and K. Fowler. 1987. Effects of egg-production and of exposure to males on female survival in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol. 33:745-749.
31. Promislow, D. E. L., and P. H. Harvey. 1990. Living fast and dying young: a comparative analysis of life history variation among mammals. J. Zool. 220:417-438.
32. Prothero, J., and K. D. Jürgens. 1987. Scaling on maximum life span in mammals. Basic. Life Sci. 42:49-47.
33. Ravary, F., and P. Jaisson. 2002. Thelytoky in ants. P. 220 in The case of Cerapachys biroi Forel. Proc. XIV Int. Congress of IUSSI, Hokkaido Universtiy, Sapporo. 220.
34. Rice, W. R. 1989. Analyzing tables of statistical tests. Evolution 43:223-225.
35. Robinson, G. E., C. Strambi, A. Strambi, and M. F. Feldlaufer. 1991. Comparison of juvenile hormone and ecdysteroid haemolymph titers in adult worker and queen honey bees. J. Insect Physiol. 37:929-935.
36. Roff, D. A. 1992. The evolution of life histories. Chapman and Hall, London.
37. Rose, M. R. 1991. Evolutionary biology of aging. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U.K.
38. Röseler, P. F. 1991. Reproductive competition during colony establishment. In K. G. Ross and R. W. Matthews, eds. The social biology of wasps. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY.
39. Schilder, K., J. Heinze, R. Gross, and B. Hölldobler. 1999a. Microsatellites reveal clonal structure of populations of the thelytokous ant Platythyrea punctata (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera; Formicidae). Mol. Ecol. 8:1497-1507.
40. Schilder, K., J. Heinze, and B. Hölldobler. 1999b. Colony structure and reproduction in the thelytokous parthenogenetic ant Platythyrea punctata (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera; Formicidae). Insect. Soc. 46:150-158.
41. Schmidt-Hempel, P., and T. Wolf. 1988. Foraging effort and life span of workers in a social insect. J. Anim. Ecol. 57:500-521.
42. Schulz, D. J., J. P. Sullivan, and G. E. Robinson. 2002. Juvenile hormone and octopamine in the regulation of division of labor in honeybee colonies. Horm. Behav. 42:222-231.
43. Sommer, K., B. Hölldobler, and H. Rembold. 1993. Behavioral and physiolgical aspects of reproductive control in a Diacamma species from Malaysia (Formicidae, Ponerinae). Ethology 94:162-170.
44. Stearns, S. C. 1992. The evolution of life histories. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U.K.
45. Tatar, M., A. Kopelman, D. Epstein, M. P. Tu, C. M. Yin, and R. S. Garofalo. 2001. A mutant Drosophila insulin receptor homolog that extends life span and impairs neuroendocrine function. Science 292:107-110.
46. Tsuji, K. 1990. Reproductive division of labour related to age in the Japanese queenless ant, Pristomyrmex pungens. Anim. Behav. 39:843-849.
47. Tsuji, K., and N. Kikuta. 2002. Dominance hierarchy, life span, and cost of worker reproduction in Diacamma sp. from Japan. Proc. XIV Int. Congress of IUSSI, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, no. 77.
48. Tsuji, K., K. Nakata, and J. Heinze. 1996. Lifespan and reproduction in a queenless ant. Naturwissenschaften 83:577-578.
49. Vargo, E. L. 1992. Mutual pheromonal inhibition among queens in polygyne colonies of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 31:205-210.
50. Westendorp, R. G. J., and T. B. L. Kirkwood. 1998. Human longevity at the cost of reproductive success. Nature 396:743-746.
51. Wheeler, W. M. 1910. Ants:their structure, development and behavior. Columbia Univ. Press, New York.
52. Williams, G. C. 1957. Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence. Evolution 11:398-411.
53. Wilson, E. O. 1971. The insect societies. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
54. Winston, M. L. 1987. The biology of the honey bee. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.