Hashim, Rosli and Heinze, J. and Yamauchi, K. and Ishida, Y. (2007) Queen-queen competition and reproductive skew in a cardiocondyla ant. Insectes Sociaux, 54 (3). pp. 268-274. ISSN 0020-1812, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-007-0941-x.
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Queens and female sexuals of the Southeast Asian ant Cardiocondyla sp. engage in aggressive interactions. By biting and violently antennating female sexuals, queens appear to prevent them from shedding their wings and presumably also from starting to lay haploid eggs. Aggression among dealate queens apparently results in the establishment of reproductive rank orders with considerable differences in offspring production among individual nestmate queens, as visualized by the pronounced color polymorphism of this taxon. Reproductive skew ranged from complete monopolization of both worker and female sexual production to more or less equal partitioning of reproduction. Division of reproduction was associated with variation in the location of queens close to or away from the center of the brood pile, which again appeared to be caused by queen-queen antagonism.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Reproductive skew, Queen fighting, Dominance, Color polymorphism, Solenopsis-invicta, Leptothorax-acervorum, Egg cannibalism, Social insects, Formicidae, Colonies, Hymenoptera, Dominance, Models, Behavior |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Miss Malisa Diana |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2013 04:15 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2019 09:11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/8303 |
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