El-Shehaby, Mohamed and Salama, Mohamed Sayed and Brunner, Elisabeth and Heinze, Juergen (2011) Cuticular hydrocarbons in two parapatric species of ants and their hybrid. INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY, 6 (3). pp. 259-265. ISSN 1749-4877,
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Discrimination between nestmates and non-nestmates in social insects is thought to rely on the pattern of cuticular hydrocarbons. We investigated the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of 2 parapatric sibling ant species, Temnothorax nylanderi (Forster, 1850) and Temnothorax crassispinus (Karavaiev, 1926), and their hybrid. We found that although the profiles show considerable similarities, a discriminant analysis based on the relative peak areas of cuticular hydrocarbons separates the 3 taxa. The profiles of hybrids were not consistently intermediate between those of the paternal species, suggesting either non-additive interactions among the parental biosynthetic pathways or systematic differences in environment-derived odor cues.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DIRECT BEHAVIORAL EVIDENCE; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; FIRE ANTS; LEPTOTHORAX-NYLANDERI; TEMNOTHORAX ANTS; COLONY STRUCTURE; HYMENOPTERA; HYBRIDIZATION; FORMICIDAE; EVOLUTION; colony odor; cuticular hydrocarbons; hybridization; Temnothorax |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2020 06:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2020 06:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/20273 |
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