Reproductive conflict in social insects: Male production by workers in a slave-making ant

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2480-2482

  Brunner, Elisabeth ^a   Trindl, Andreas ^a   Falk, Karl H ^b   Heinze, Juergen ^a   D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Kin conflict; Reproductive conflict; Slave making ants; Social insects; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; POLYERGUS RUFESCENS;

EID: 28644439304     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb00957.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bourke, A. F. G. 1989. Comparative analysis of sex-investment ratios in slave-making ants. Evolution 43:913-918.
2. Bourke, A. F. G., and N. R. Franks. 1995. Social evolution in ants. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
3. Cole, B. J. 1986. The social behavior of Leptothorax allardycei (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): time budgets and the evolution of worker reproduction. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 18:165-173.
4. D'Ettorre, P., and J. Heinze. 2001. Sociobiology of slave-making ants. Acta Ethol. 3:67-82.
5. Foitzik, S., and J. M. Herbers. 2001. Colony structure of a slave-making ant. I. Intracolony relatedness, worker reproduction, and polydomy. Evolution 55:307-315.
6. Foster, K. R., F. L. W. Ratnieks, N. Gyllenstrand, and P. A. Thorén. 2001. Colony kin structure and male production in Dolichovespula wasps. Mol. Ecol. 10:1003-1010.
7. Franks, N., and E. Scovell. 1983. Dominance and reproductive success among slave-making worker ants. Nature 304:724-725.
8. Hammond, R. L., and L. Keller. 2004. Conflict over male parentage in social insects. Publ. Libr. Science Biol. 2:e248.
9. Hasegawa, E., and S. Imai. 2004. Characterization of microsatellite loci in red wood ants Formica (s. str.) spp. and the related genus Polyergus. Mol. Ecol. Notes 4:200-203.
10. Heinze, J. 1996. The reproductive potential of workers in slave-making ants. Insectes Soc. 43:319-328.
11. _. 2004. Reproductive conflict in insect societies. Adv. Stud. Behav. 34:1-57.
12. Mori, A., P. D'Ettorre, and F. Le Moli. 1994. Mating and postmating behaviour of the European Amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Boll. Zool. 61:203-206.
13. Queller, D. C., and K. F. Goodnight. 1989. Estimating relatedness using genetic markers. Evolution 43:258-275.
14. Trindl, A., J. Heinze, and P. D'Ettorre. 2004. Isolation and characterization of five microsatellite loci in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mol. Ecol. Notes 4:583-585.
15. Trivers, R. L., and H. Hare. 1976. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of social insects. Science 191:249-263.
16. Wenseleers, T., H. Helanterä, A. G. Hart, and F. L. W. Ratnieks. 2004. Worker reproduction and policing in insect societies: an ESS analysis, J. Evol. Biol. 17:1035-1047.