Small Body Size Is Associated with Increased Aggression in the Solitary Sweat Bee Nomia melanderi (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)
Small Body Size Is Associated with Increased Aggression in the Solitary Sweat Bee Nomia melanderi (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)
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体型较小与独居汗蜂Nomia melanderi（膜翅目，Halictidae）的攻击性增加有关
DOI：
10.1007/s10905-019-09736-7
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
1
通讯作者：
Kapheim, Karen M.
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作者：
Smith, Adam R.;DeLory, Timothy;Johnson, Makenna M.;Figgins, Anna C.;Hagadorn, Mallory A.;Kapheim, Karen M.
修改祖先的调节机制可能是进化新颖性的一个来源。在以统治为基础的小群体社会中，蜜蜂通常表现出大小和攻击性之间的联系：较大的蜜蜂更具攻击性。这导致了一种假设，即这种大小与攻击性的联系是祖先独居蜜蜂的特征，这种独居蜜蜂在从独居行为向社会行为的进化转变中获得了一种新的功能。在这里，我们测试了这一假设的中心预测，即体型与祖先独居的蜜蜂的攻击性有关。我们使用的汗蜂Nomia Blackderi(膜翅目，Halictidae)属于Nomiinae亚科，它是社会汗蜂的姐妹，所有的社会汗蜂都属于Halictinae亚科。我们使用标准化的行为测试(圆管)来测量攻击性，其中两只蜜蜂被放在一起并允许互动。我们使用了三种处理：大小匹配的小蜜蜂，大小匹配的大蜜蜂，以及一只大蜜蜂和一只小蜜蜂配对。我们没有发现卵巢大小和攻击性之间的联系，但因为我们只使用了繁殖活跃的蜜蜂，所以我们可能没有足够的变异来检测这种联系。在所有处理中，体型与攻击性呈负相关。在匹配处理中，大蜜蜂和小蜜蜂之间没有差异，但在混合处理中，小蜜蜂比大蜜蜂更具攻击性。这支持了我们关于大小-攻击性联系的预测，尽管这种联系在群居蜜蜂中看到的方向是相反的。此外，我们的数据显示，即使是独居蜜蜂也可以根据社会背景调整它们的攻击性，并强调了研究相关独居物种以了解社会性的进化起源的重要性。
Modifying ancestral regulatory mechanisms can be a source of evolutionary novelty. Bees in small-colony, dominance-based societies typically show a link between size and aggression: larger bees are more aggressive. This led to the hypothesis that this size-aggression link is a characteristic of ancestral solitary bees that has acquired a novel function in the evolutionary transition from solitary to social behavior. Here we test the central prediction of this hypothesis, that size is linked to aggression in an ancestrally solitary bee. We use the sweat beeNomia melanderi(Hymenoptera, Halictidae) in the subfamily Nomiinae, which is sister to the social sweat bees, all of which are in the subfamily Halictinae. We measured aggression using a standardized behavioral assay (circle tube) in which two bees were placed together and allowed to interact. We used three treatments: size matched small bees, size matched large bees, and one large bee paired with one small bee. We found no link between ovary size and aggression, but because we used only reproductively active bees we may not have had sufficient variation to detect such a link. Across treatments, body size negatively correlated with aggression. There were no differences between large and small bees in the matched treatments, but in the mixed treatment, small bees were more aggressive than large bees. This supported our prediction of a size-aggression link, although the link was in the opposite direction seen in social bees. Moreover, our data show that even solitary bees can modulate their aggression in response to social context and highlight the importance of studying related solitary species to understand the evolutionary origins of sociality.
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影响因子：
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作者：
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