Colony stage and not facultative policing explains pattern of worker reproduction in the Saxon wasp

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3455-3468

  Bonckaert, W ^a   Van Zweden, J S ^b,c   D'Ettorre, P ^b,d   Billen, J ^a   Wenseleers, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Dolichovespula saxonica; facultative worker policing; inclusive fitness theory; reproductive conflict; social insects; Vespinae wasps

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

ANIMALS; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HYDROCARBONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

DOLICHOVESPULA SAXONICA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPINAE;

EID: 80051664161     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05200.x     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Aitchison J, (1986) The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data. Chapman and Hall, London.
2. Archer ME, (2006) Taxonomy, distribution and nesting biology of species of the genus Dolichovespula (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Entomological Science, 9, 281-293. (Pubitemid 44222275)
3. Bloch G, Hefetz A, (1999) Regulation of reproduction by dominant workers in bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queenright colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 45, 125.
4. Blomquist GJ, Bagnères A-G, (eds) (2010) Insect Hydrocarbons: Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemical Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Bonavita-Cougourdan A, Clément JL, Lange C, (1987) Nestmate recognition: the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in the ant Camponotus vagus Scop. Journal of Entomological Science, 22, 1-10.
6. Bonckaert W, Vuerinckx K, Billen J, Hammond RL, Keller L, Wenseleers T, (2008) Worker policing in the German wasp Vespula germanica. Behavioral Ecology, 19, 272-278.
7. Bonckaert W, Tofilski A, Nascimento FS, Billen J, Ratnieks FLW, Wenseleers T, (2010) Co-occurrence of three types of egg policing in the Norwegian wasp Dolichovespula norwegica. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65, 633-640.
8. Boomsma JJ, (1996) Split sex ratios and queen-male conflict over sperm allocation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 263, 697-704.
9. Boomsma JJ, Grafen A, (1990) Intraspecific variation in ant sex ratios and the Trivers-Hare hypothesis. Evolution, 44, 1026-1034.
10. Boomsma JJ, Nielsen J, Sundström L, et al. (2003) Informational constraints on optimal sex allocation in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100, 8799-8804. (Pubitemid 36899178)
11. Bourke AFG, (1988) Worker reproduction in the higher eusocial Hymenoptera. Quarterly Review of Biology, 63, 291-311. (Pubitemid 19324057)
12. Bourke AFG, (2005) Genetics, relatedness and social behaviour in insect societies. In: Insect Evolutionary Ecology (eds, Fellowes MDE, Holloway GJ, Rolff J,), pp. 1-30. CABI Publishing, Wallingford.
13. Bourke AFG, Franks NR, (1995) Social Evolution in Ants. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.
14. Bourke AFG, Ratnieks FLW, (2001) Kin-selected conflict in the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences (Series B), 268, 347.
15. Dani FR, Foster KR, Zacchi F, et al. (2004) Can cuticular lipids provide sufficient information for within-colony nepotism in wasps? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 271, 745-753. (Pubitemid 38437945)
16. Dijkstra MB, Boomsma JJ, (2008) Sex allocation in fungus-growing ants: worker or queen control without symbiont-induced female bias. Oikos, 117, 1892-1906. (Pubitemid 352840381)
17. Duchateau MJ, Velthuis HHW, (1988) Development and reproductive strategies in Bombus terrestris colonies. Behaviour, 107, 186-207.
18. Foster KR, Ratnieks FLW, (2000) Facultative worker policing in a wasp. Nature, 407, 692-693.
19. Foster KR, Ratnieks FLW, (2001a) Convergent evolution of worker policing by egg eating in the honeybee and common wasp. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 268, 169-174. (Pubitemid 32147363)
20. Foster KR, Ratnieks FLW, (2001b) Paternity, reproduction and conflict in vespine wasps: a model system for testing kin selection predictions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50, 1-8. (Pubitemid 32592848)
21. Foster KR, Ratnieks FLW, Gyllenstrand N, Thorén PA, (2001) Colony kin structure and male production in Dolichovespula wasps. Molecular Ecology, 10, 1003-1010. (Pubitemid 32406399)
22. Greene A, (1984) Production schedules of vespine wasps: an empirical test of the bang-bang optimization model. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 57, 545-568.
23. Greene A, (1991) Dolichovespula and Vespula. In: The Social Biology of Wasps (eds, Ross KG, Matthews RW,), pp. 263-304. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, USA.
24. Hamilton WD, (1964) The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I & II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-52.
25. Hammond RL, Keller L, (2004) Conflict over male parentage in social insects. PLoS Biology, 2, 1472-1482.
26. Hammond RL, Bruford MW, Bourke AFG, (2003) Male parentage does not vary with colony kin structure in a multiple-queen ant. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 16, 446-455. (Pubitemid 36567975)
27. Howard RW, Blomquist GJ, (2005) Ecological, behavioral, and biochemical aspects of insect hydrocarbons. Annual Review of Entomology, 50, 371-393.
28. Howard RW, Perez-Lachaud G, Lachaud JP, (2001) Cuticular hydrocarbons of Kapala sulcifacies (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) and its host, the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 94, 707-716. (Pubitemid 33734137)
29. Johnson EL, Cunningham TW, Marriner SM, et al. (2009) Resource allocation in a social wasp: effects of breeding system and life cycle on reproductive decisions. Molecular Ecology, 18, 2908-2920.
30. Jones OR, Wang JL, (2010) COLONY: a program for parentage and sibship inference from multilocus genotype data. Molecular Ecology Resources, 10, 551-555.
31. Meunier J, West SA, Chapuisat M, (2008) Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology, 19, 382-390.
32. Moore D, Liebig J, (2010) Mechanisms of social regulation change across colony development in an ant. Evolutionary Biology, 10, 328.
33. Nielsen R, Tarpy DR, Reeve HK, (2003) Estimating effective paternity number in social insects and the effective number of alleles in a population. Molecular Ecology, 12, 3157-3164. (Pubitemid 37425083)
34. Ohtsuki H, Tsuji K, (2009) Adaptive reproduction schedule as a cause of worker policing in social Hymenoptera: a dynamic game analysis. The American Naturalist, 173, 747-758.
35. Pamilo P, (1991a) Evolution of colony characteristics in social insects. II. Number of reproductive individuals. The American Naturalist, 138, 412-433.
36. Pamilo P, (1991b) Evolution of colony characteristics in social insects. I. Sex allocation. The American Naturalist, 137, 83-107.
37. Queller DC, (2000) Relatedness and the fraternal major transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, 355, 1647-1655.
38. Queller DC, Strassmann JE, (1998) Kin selection and social insects. BioScience, 48, 165-175.
39. Ratnieks FLW, (1988) Reproductive harmony via mutual policing by workers in eusocial Hymenoptera. The American Naturalist, 132, 217-236. (Pubitemid 19324056)
40. Ratnieks FLW, Reeve HK, (1992) Conflict in single-queen hymenopteran societies: the structure of conflict and processes that reduce conflict in advanced eusocial species. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 158, 33-65.
41. Ratnieks FLW, Visscher PK, (1989) Worker policing in the honeybee. Nature, 342, 796-797. (Pubitemid 20424340)
42. Ratnieks FLW, Wenseleers T, (2008) Altruism in insect societies and beyond: voluntary or enforced? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, 45-52.
43. Ratnieks FLW, Foster KR, Wenseleers T, (2006) Conflict resolution in insect societies. Annual Review of Entomology, 51, 581-608. (Pubitemid 43107835)
44. Schoeters E, Wenseleers T, (2005) Onze sociale wespen: Vespa, Dolichovespula en Vespula. Educatie Limburgs Landschap, Heusden Zolder.
45. Starr CK, (1984) Sperm competition, kinship, and sociality: a review of modern theory. In: Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems (ed., RL Smith,), pp. 427-464. Academic Press, Orlando.
46. Sundström L, (1994) Sex ratio bias, relatedness asymmetry and queen mating frequency in ants. Nature, 367, 266-267.
47. Sundström L, Chapuisat M, Keller L, (1996) Conditional manipulation of sex ratios by ant workers: a test of kin selection theory. Science, 274, 993-995.
48. Suzuki T, (1986) Production schedules of males and reproductive females, investment sex-ratios, and worker-queen conflict in paper wasps. The American Naturalist, 128, 366-378.
49. Tarpy DR, Nielsen R, Nielsen DI, (2004) A scientific note on the revised estimates of effective paternity frequency in Apis. Insectes Sociaux, 51, 203-204. (Pubitemid 38708652)
50. Thorén PA, Paxton RJ, Estoup A, (1995) Unusually high frequency of (CT)n and (GT)n microsatellite loci in a yellowjacket wasp, Vespula rufa (L.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insect Molecular Biology, 5, 141-148.
51. Trivers RL, Hare H, (1976) Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insects. Science, 191, 249-263.
52. Wang J, (2004) Sibship reconstruction from genetic data with typing errors. Genetics, 166, 1963-1979. (Pubitemid 38621074)
53. Wenseleers T, Ratnieks FLW, (2006a) Comparative analysis of worker reproduction and policing in eusocial Hymenoptera supports relatedness theory. The American Naturalist, 168, E163-E179.
54. Wenseleers T, Ratnieks FLW, (2006b) Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature, 444, 50. (Pubitemid 44684748)
55. Wenseleers T, Helantera H, Hart A, Ratnieks FLW, (2004) Worker reproduction and policing in insect societies: an ESS analysis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 17, 1035-1047. (Pubitemid 39175171)
56. Wenseleers T, Tofilski A, Ratnieks FLW, (2005) Queen and worker policing in the tree wasp Dolichovespula sylvestris. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 58, 80-86. (Pubitemid 40600038)
57. West S, (2009) Sex Allocation. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.