Social Biology of Ropalidia Montana, Award in Indian Currency

说明：本项目部分支持外地费用 詹姆斯·亨特博士和罗伯特·珍妮博士 来自密苏里州大学生物系， 圣路易斯，同时在印度进行研究， 与R博士年印度科学研究所的加达卡尔说， 班加罗尔。 在研究中，将对Ropalidia进行研究 蒙大拿，热带的群居黄蜂之一。 具有 作为为数不多的社会物种之一， 纸黄蜂有离散的女王/工人二型性。 的 研究将解决以下问题：1。是否 物种具有报警信息素及其来源; 2.做 黄蜂在蜂群中使用化学物质来标记踪迹 移民，3.雄幼虫和雌幼虫的产量 在与成人的食物交换过程中的唾液量，4。如何 幼虫是否能逃出蛹室; 5.是什么 觅食工蜂任务分配的表观模式 黄蜂？ 这项工作将涉及选择一个黄蜂殖民地， 把它从高树上的自然栖息地移到一个 在灌木丛中可以更容易地进行观察。 范围：这笔小额赠款将为两个美国项目提供资金。 科学家进行感兴趣的研究，美国，在 在人口生物学领域， 他们的东道主是印度最著名的学术和研究机构之一， 院所 前往印度的旅费已提供给 其他来源的科学家。 这项研究补充了 Hunt博士在基金BSR 8805971下所做的工作 关于“营养、营养和保健”的人口生物学方案 原始社会黄蜂中的种姓。

Description: This project partially supports field expenses for two U.S. scientists, Dr. James Hunt and Dr. Robert Jeanne of the Department of Biology, Universiy of Missouri, St. Louis, while conducting research in India in collaboration with Dr. R. Gadagkar of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. In the research, work will be done on Ropalidia montana, one of the social wasps of the tropics. It is of considerable interest as one of very few species of social paper wasps to have discrete queen/worker dimorphism. The research will address the following questions: 1. does the species have an alarm pheromone and what is its source, 2. do the wasps use chemicals to mark trails during swarm emigration, 3. do male and female larvae yield different quantities of saliva during food exchange with adults, 4. how do larvae escape their pupal cells, and 5. what is the apparent pattern of task partitioning by forager worker wasps?. This work will involve selection of a wasp colony and removing it from its natural habitat on high trees to an area of shrubs where observations can be made more easily. Scope: This small grant will provide funds for the two U.S. scientists to conduct research of interest, to the U.S., in the area of population biology and with the collaboration of their host at one of India's prestigeous academic and research institutes. Funds for travel to India were made available to the scientists from other sources. This research complements work being done by Dr. Hunt under a grant BSR8805971 from the Population Biology Program on "Nourishment, Trophallaxis and Caste in Primitvely Social Wasps".