Conflicts of Interest Within Colonies

Wenseleers, Tom; Princen, Sarah A.; Oliveira, Ricardo Caliari; Oi, Cintia Akemi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_28-1

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“…This fact questions the seeming inability of man to proffer progressive and sustainable leadership practices in his community, though "less intelligent" ants have consistently sustained their species in cooperative and progressive communities in spite of also having their share of intra-colony conflicts (Sun et al, 2020) just as does humans. Notwithstanding the outburst of occasional intra colony conflicts among ants, overall there is peaceful relationship devoid of obvious violence within individual colonies (Ivens, 2015;Martin & Sengupta, 2021;Wenseleers et al, 2020).…”

Section: Contrasting Human and Ants Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community leadership practices in Edo State Nigeria: Justification for a Biomimetic-based alternative in community development

Adebola,

-Fashae

2024

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This article is the first of a two-part assessment of leadership practices in community development processes. In this first part, community leadership practices (CLPs) are established as everyday actions executed by community leaders in the administration of processes to achieve communal development. In which case, community development associations (CDAs) should be agents that facilitate community development. Therefore, the continued disbandment of CDAs by the government of Edo State Nigeria in the past 6 years is odd. Postulating that the prevailing anti-development leadership practices is the reason behind the disbandment, the authors assessed the state of CLPs in the study area to determine the justification or otherwise, for a Biomimetic leadership alternative. The assessment was by observation, news reports and document analysis. This article affirmed that dominant anti-development practices of CDA leaders are critical to lack of development and recommended drawing leadership lessons from resilient bio-communities for application in human communities.

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Section: Contrasting Human and Ants Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community leadership practices in Edo State Nigeria: Justification for a Biomimetic-based alternative in community development

Adebola,

-Fashae

2024

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“…Workers thus "work for the colony", but only when a queen is present to dominate reproduction. When the kinship structure changes in the absence of the queen, individual workers are expected to prioritize their own tness by reproducing instead of performing colony maintenance duties (Bourke 1988;Wenseleers et al 2020b). This argument may apply to other effects discussed below, such that adult workers and gynes behave to maximize their inclusive tness as they stay informed about the presence of the queen through queen pheromones.…”

Section: Effects On Colony Maintenancementioning

confidence: 99%

Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments

ZENG¹

2023

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Ants represent one of the most prominent groups of social animals by virtue of their colony social structure, where up to millions of individuals cooperate to survive, compete, and reproduce as a single superorganism. Members of ant colonies typically are categorized into a reproductive queen caste and a non-reproductive worker caste. The queen conveys her fertility condition and genotypic information via a suite of queen pheromones, which act as agents that manifest various effects crucial to the superorganismal nature of ant colonies. A firm understanding of the functional roles of queen pheromones is required to identify constituent chemicals and to understand their mode of functions. In this review, I summarize functional properties of ant queen pheromones learned from seven decades of behavioral experiments, and contextualize this knowledge within the broader understanding of queen pheromones in other major groups of social insects. The effects include promotion of colony integrity and coherence, maintenance of reproductive dominance of the queen, and regulation of colony social structure. Additionally, general characteristics of queen pheromones are discussed and potential revenues for future research are highlighted.

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“…Evolutionary conflict arises when multiple genetic entities present within an individual have divergent interests, where they would benefit from moving the phenotype in opposite directions [33,34]. Conflict can occur between genetic entities within the same genome (intragenomic conflict [35]), between multiple genomes within an organism (intergenomic conflict, e.g., [36]), between soma and germline within a multicellular organism (cancer [37]) or even between reproductive and non-reproductive casts within a eusocial insect colony [38]. Multiple solutions appeared to reduce these costly conflicts, for instance, uniparental inheritance of mitochondria [39], cell cycle checkpoints to prevent neoplastic growth [37], or policing worker-laid eggs in honeybees [38].…”

Section: Ciliate Somatic Selection and Intergenomic Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%