Worker oviposition and policing behaviour in the myrmicine ant Aphaenogaster smythiesi japonica Forel
Worker oviposition and policing behaviour in the myrmicine ant Aphaenogaster smythiesi japonica Forel
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10.1006/anbe.2003.2222
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2003-09-01
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2.5
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Ohkawara, K
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Iwanishi, S;Hasegawa, E;Ohkawara, K
在真社会性水翅目中，工蜂繁殖受多种因素的影响，尤其殖民地的遗传结构。亲属关系理论预测，当一个单一的，一次交配的女王在一个殖民地时，hyperteran工人更喜欢生产儿子而不是兄弟，而这种工人的繁殖预计将被其他工人在女王多次交配的情况下相互抑制。为了验证这些预测，我们观察了蚁Aphaenogaster smythiesi japonica的行为。60个蜂王群体的社会结构观察表明，一夫一妻制和微卫星DNA分析的14个群体显示一雄制。在实验室条件下，卵巢功能正常的工蜂在蚁后在场的情况下只产营养卵，在蚁后不在的情况下产活卵。在一个实验中，殖民地分裂和团聚，工人有发育良好的卵巢管与可行的卵母细胞经常被攻击的其他工人从queenright集团。卵巢管中的辅助细胞数量与被攻击的频率呈正相关。结果表明，工人的生产男性在这个物种是潜在的抑制工人警务，相反的预测，工人警务是不占主导地位的一夫一妻制和单雄制的社会。(C)2003年由Elsevier Ltd代表动物行为研究协会出版。
In eusocial Hymenoptera, worker reproduction is affected by various factors, especially the genetic structure of the colony. Kinship theory predicts that hymenopteran workers prefer to produce sons rather than brothers when a single, once-mated queen is in a colony, while such worker reproduction is expected to be mutually inhibited by other workers under multiple mating of the queen. To test these predictions we observed the behaviour of the myrmicine ant Aphaenogaster smythiesi japonica. Observation of the social structure of 60 queenright colonies indicated monogyny and microsatellite DNA analysis of 14 colonies showed monandry. Under laboratory conditions, workers with functional ovaries laid only trophic eggs in the presence of the queen and produced viable eggs in her absence. In an experiment in which colonies split and reunited, workers that had well-developed ovarioles with viable oocytes were frequently attacked by other workers from the queenright groups. The number of cocytes in a worker's ovarioles was positively correlated with the frequency of being attacked. The results show that a worker's production of males in this species is potentially inhibited by worker policing, contrary to the prediction that worker policing is not predominant in monogynous and monandrous societies. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.