Brood development into sexual females depends on the presence of a queen but not on temperature in an ant dispersing by colony fission, Aphaenogaster senilis

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 595-602

  Boulay, Raphaël ^a   CerdÁ, Xim ^a   Fertin, Arnold ^b   Ichinose, Katsyua ^c   Lenoir, Alain ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brood rearing; Brood totipotency; Caste determination; Colony life cycle; Queen pheromone; Temperature; Worker control

Indexed keywords

ANT; BROOD REARING; COLONY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHEROMONE; QUEEN; SOCIAL INSECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WORKER CASTE;

APHAENOGASTER SENILIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 70349097152     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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