Brunner, Elisabeth and Kroiss, Johannes and Heinze, Juergen (2009) Chemical correlates of reproduction and worker policing in a myrmicine ant. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY, 55 (1). pp. 19-26. ISSN 0022-1910, 1879-1611
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In a number of wasps, bees, and in particular ponerine ants, quantitative and qualitative variation in the profile of cuticular hydrocarbons is associated with variation in fecundity and is likely to serve for communicating the reproductive status of an individual. Here, we demonstrate that the chemical profile on the cuticle of fertile workers and queens of the myrmicine ant Temnothorax unifasciatus is different from that of non-reproductive workers. Fertility and apparently also cuticular signatures are reversible under the influence of policing by worker aggression. Though no policing by egg-eating occurs in this species, queen and worker laid eggs also differed in their chemical profile. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | EUSOCIAL HYMENOPTERA; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; INSECT SOCIETIES; SOCIAL INSECTS; CUTICULAR-HYDROCARBONS; LEPTOTHORAX-NYLANDERI; QUEEN INFLUENCE; APIS-MELLIFERA; PONERINE ANT; FERTILITY; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Worker policing; Fertility signalling; Fertility reversion |
| 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: | 12 Oct 2020 13:07 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2020 13:07 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29770 |
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