Diet-mediated inter-colonial aggression in the formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2559-2574

  Florane, Christopher B ^a   Bland, John M ^a   Husseneder, Claudia ^b   Raina, Ashok K ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonism; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Microsatellite DNA markers; Termite

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AGGRESSION; DIET; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL INSECT; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BIRCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; FEEDING; ISOPTERA; LABORATORY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TERRITORIALITY; UNITED STATES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EATING; HYDROCARBONS; ISOPTERA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PICEA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); WOOD;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; CUPRESSUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; PICEA; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TAXODIUM;

EID: 13844266507     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-004-7950-2     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. ADAMS, E. S. 1991. Nest-mate recognition based on heritable odors in the termite Microcerotermes arboreus. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 88:2031-2034.
2. BLAND, J. M., OSBRINK, W. L. A., CORNELIUS, M. L., LAX, A. R., and VIGO, C. B. 2001. Solid-phase microextraction for the detection of termite cuticular hydrocarbons. J. Chromatogr. A 932:119-127.
3. BLOMQUIST, G. J., NELSON, D. R., and DE RENOBALES, M. 1987. Chemistry, biochemistry and physiology of insect cuticular lipids. Arch. Inst. Biochem. Phys. 6:227-265.
4. BROUGHTON, R. E. and GRACE, J. K. 1994. Lack of mitochondrial DNA variation in an introduced population of the Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Sociobiology 24:121-126.
5. BULMER, M. S., ADAMS, E. S., and TRANIELLO, J. F. 2001. Variation in colony structure in the subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49:236-243.
6. DANI, F. R., JONES, G. R., DESTRI, S., SPENCER, S. H., and TURILLAZZI, S. 2001. Deciphering the recognition signature within the cuticular chemical profile of paper wasps. Anim. Behav. 62:1-7.
7. DELAPLANE, K. S. 1991. Tests for intraspecific agonism in a Louisiana population of Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). J. Entomol. Sci. 26:357-359.
8. DELPHIA, C. M., COPREN, K. A., and HAVERTY, M. I. 2003. Agonistic behavior between individual worker termites from three cuticular hydrocarbon phenotypes of Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) from northern California. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 96:585-593.
9. GOUDET, J. 1995. Fstat version 1.2: A computer program to calculate Fstatistics. J. Hered. 86:485-486.
10. HAVERTY, M. I. and THORNE, B. L. 1989. Agonistic behavior correlated with hydrocarbon phenotypes in dampwood termites, Zootermopsis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). J. Insect Behav. 2:523-543.
11. HAVERTY, M. I., GRACE, J. K., NELSON, L. J., and YAMAMOTO, R. T. 1996. Intercaste, inter-colony, and temporal variation in cuticular hydrocarbons of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). J. Chem. Ecol. 22:1813-1834.
12. HAVERTY, M. I., COPREN, K. A., GETTY, G. M., and LEWIS, V. R. 1999. Agonistic behavior and cuticular hydrocarbon phenotypes of colonies of Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) from northern California. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 92:269-277.
13. HUSSENEDER, C. and GRACE, J. K. 2001. Evaluation of DNA fingerprinting, aggression tests and morphometry as tools for colony delineation of the Formosan subterranean termite. J. Insect Behav. 14:173-186.
14. HUSSENEDER, C., KAIB, M., EPPLEN, C., EPPLEN, J. T., and BRANDL, R. 1997. Small-scale population structure of the termite Schedorhinotermes lamanianus: Aggression modulated by genetic and environmental factors. Mitt. Dtsch. Ges. Allg. Angew. Entomol. 11:183-187.
15. HUSSENEDER, C., BRANDL, R., EPPLEN, C., EPPLEN, J. T., and KAIB, M. 1998. Variation between and within colonies in the termite, morphology, genomic DNA, and behavior. Mol. Ecol. 7:983-990.
16. HUSSENEDER, C., GRACE, J. K., MESSENGER, M. T., VARGO, E. L., and SU, N.-Y. 2003. Describing the spatial and social organization of Formosan subterranean termite colonies in Armstrong Park, New Orleans. Sociobiology 41:61-65.
17. LA FAGE, J. P. 1985. Practical considerations of the Formosan subterranean termite in Louisiana a 30-year-old problem, pp. 37-42, in M. Tamashiro and N. -Y. Su (eds.). Biology and Control of the Formosan Subterranean Termite. Proceedings of the International Hawaii Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Honolulu, Hawaii.
18. LEWIS, P. O. and ZAYKIN, D. 2000. Genetic Data Analysis: Computer program for the analysis of allelic data. Version 1.0.
19. LIANG, D. and SILVERMAN, J. 2000. "You are what you eat": Diet modifies cuticular hydrocarbons and nest-mate recognition in Argentine ant, Linepithema humile. Naturwissenschaften 87:412-416.
20. MANTEL, N. A. 1967. The detection of disease clustering and a generalized regression approach. Cancer Res. 27:209-220.
21. MATSUURA, K. 2001. Nestmate recognition mediated by intestinal bacteria in a termite, Reticulitermes speratus. Oikos 92:20-26.
22. PAGE, M. L., NELSON, J., FORSCHLER, B. T., and HAVERTY, M. I. 2002. Cuticular hydrocarbons suggest three lineages in Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) from North America. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 131:305-324.
23. RAYMOND, M. and ROUSSET, F. 1995. GENEPOP (version 1.2): Population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. J. Hered. 86:248-249.
24. SHELTON, T. G. and GRACE, J. K. 1996. Review of agonistic behaviors in the Isoptera. Sociobiology 28:155-176.
25. SILVERMAN, J. and LIANG, D. 2001. Colony dissociation following diet partitioning in a unicolonial ant. Naturwissenschaften 88:73-77.
26. SPSS INC. 2001. SPSS Base 11.0 Statistical Software. Chicago, IL.
27. SU, N. -Y. and HAVERTY, M. I. 1991. Agonistic behavior among colonies of the Formsan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), from Florida and Hawaii: Lack of correlation with cuticular hydrocarbon composition. J. Insect Behav. 4:115-128.
28. SU, N. Y. and SCHEFFRAHN, R. H. 1990. Economically important termites in the United States and their control. Sociobiology 17:77-94.
29. THORNE, B. L. and HAVERTY, M. I. 1991. A review of intra-colony, intraspecific, and interspecific agonism in termites. Sociobiology 19:115-145.
30. THORNE, B. L., TRANIELLO, J. F. A., ADAMS, E. S., and BULMER, M. 1999. Reproductive dynamics and colony structure of subterranean termites of the genus Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): A review of the evidence from behavioral, ecological and genetic studies. Ethol,Ecol. and Evol. 11:149-169.
31. VARGO, E. L. 2003. Genetic structure of Reticulitermes flavipes and R. virginicus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) colonies in urban habitat and tracking of colonies following treatment with hexaflumeron bait. Envir. Entomol. 32:1271-1282.
32. VARGO, E. L. and HENDERSON, G. 2000. Identification of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki. Mol. Ecol. 9:1935-1938.
33. WEIR, B. S. and COCKERHAM, C. C. 1984. Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. Evolution 38:1358-1370.
34. WILSON, E. O. 1971. Chemical communication in the social insects. Science 149:1046-1071.