Elimination of sexual brood in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile: queen effect and brood recognition
Elimination of sexual brood in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile: queen effect and brood recognition
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消除阿根廷蚁 Linepithema humile 的有性繁殖：蚁后效应和繁殖识别
DOI：
10.1111/j.1570-7458.1995.tb01928.x
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发表时间：
1995
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D. Bach
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作者：
L. Passera;Serge Aron;D. Bach
将红线蚁 (Iridomyrmex humilis Mayr) 的交配蚁后引入去蚁后的蚁群碎片中饲养有性后代，会引发工蚁的攻击性，导致蚁后幼虫被咬伤并被消灭。相比之下，雄性幼虫却幸免于难。对于蜂王幼虫，捕杀主要是中小型幼虫。很大一部分大型幼虫逃脱了灭绝，预蛹和蛹幸免于难。这些数据表明，工蚁能够区分幼崽的性别、种姓和年龄。
Mated queens of the ant Linepithema humile (Iridomyrmex humilis Mayr) introduced into dequeened colony fragments rearing sexual brood elicited worker aggression resulting in queen larvae being bitten and eliminated. By contrast, male larvae were spared. Regarding queen brood, killing mainly concerned small and medium sized larvae. A large proportion of the large larvae escaped extermination, and prepupae and pupae were spared. These data suggest that workers were able to discriminate sex, caste and age of the brood.