Geographic distribution of the anti-parasite trait “slave rebellion”

Pamminger, Tobias; Leingärtner, Annette; Achenbach, Alexandra; Kleeberg, Isabelle; Pennings, Pleuni S.; Foitzik, Susanne

doi:10.1007/s10682-012-9584-0

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“…Sometimes an association will appear to be behaviorally cooperative but this cooperation is not adaptive or beneficial for one partner. For example, so-called slave ants are captured when they are pupae by another species and then grow up to become behaviorally cooperative workers in the captor colony, which functions quite harmoniously, though slave rebellions can occur (Pamminger et al 2012 ). Similarly, a parent bird victimized by a cuckoo seems to willingly invest enormous energy to raise the cuckoo chick as its own.…”

Section: Willing Workers Versus Slaves and Dupesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Problems of multi-species organisms: endosymbionts to holobionts

Queller

Strassmann

2016

Biol Philos

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The organism is one of the fundamental concepts of biology and has been at the center of many discussions about biological individuality, yet what exactly it is can be confusing. The definition that we find generally useful is that an organism is a unit in which all the subunits have evolved to be highly cooperative, with very little conflict. We focus on how often organisms evolve from two or more formerly independent organisms. Two canonical transitions of this type-replicators clustered in cells and endosymbiotic organelles within host cells-demonstrate the reality of this kind of evolutionary transition and suggest conditions that can favor it. These conditions include co-transmission of the partners across generations and rules that strongly regulate and limit conflict, such as a fair meiosis. Recently, much attention has been given to associations of animals with microbes involved in their nutrition. These 1,* 1 1 e.Proofing http://eproofing.springer.com/journals/printpage.php?token=z... 1 of 35 10/26/16, 9:42 AM range from tight endosymbiotic associations like those between aphids and Buchnera bacteria, to the complex communities in animal intestines. Here, starting with a reflection about identity through time (which we call "Theseus's fish"), we consider the distinctions between these kinds of animal-bacteria interactions and describe the criteria by which a few can be considered jointly organismal but most cannot.

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Section: Willing Workers Versus Slaves and Dupesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Problems of multi-species organisms: endosymbionts to holobionts

Queller

Strassmann

2016

Biol Philos

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“…More recently, Achenbach and Foitzik (2009) reported the same phenomenon (also under laboratory conditions) in Temnothorax curvispinosus, T. longispinosus and T. ambiguus enslaved by Protomognathus americanus (see also Pamminger et al, 2013). Slaves of these species systematically eliminated up to two-thirds of female brood of their enslaver.…”

Section: Sabotagementioning

confidence: 59%

“…(see Pamminger et al, 2013 and references therein). A recent experimental work (Pamminger et al, 2013) devoted to the expression of behavioural trait ''slave rebellion'' sensu Achenbach and Foitzik (2009) (i.e. killing of the enslaver brood), in workers of Temnothorax longispinosus acting as slaves of Protomognathus americanus, suggests that slaves employ that strategy only if other defence strategies proved to be unsuccessful.…”

Section: Discussion/open Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enslaved ants: not as helpless as they were thought to be

Czechowski

Godzińska

2014

Insect. Soc.

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Slavery in ants involves robbing of brood of host ant species and rearing captured individuals in the enslaver’s nest. Whereas slaves of facultative slave-makers increase the workforce of the colony, in obligate slave-makers presence of slaves is vital for colony survival. Until recently, it was generally believed that enslaved workers act solely for the benefit of their social parasite and are wholly lost for their own colony and population. However, evidence that slaves may act also in favour of their own maternal population by engaging in various forms of the so-called slave rebellions is already quite extensive and may be found in both old and recent myrmecological literature, although, unfortunately, these data are often neglected or overlooked. They may be classified into four categories: (1) acts of physical aggression directed by slaves to slave-makers, (2) attempts of slaves to reproduce within a slave-maker colony, (3) ‘sabotage’, i.e. activities of slaves leading to weakening of the slave-maker colony and population, and (4) slave emancipation, i.e. partial or complete self-liberation of slaves from slave-maker colonies. In this review, we present and discuss all these diverse (often interrelated) expressions of slave opposition to their enslavers, focussing our discussion on both proximate and evolutionary causation of the discussed phenomena. We also indicate some open questions which remain to be answered by future research.

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“…Intraspecific social parasites, which have recognition cues different from those of the unrelated foundresses they evict, will be unmasked by host workers if they do not interfere in such a process. Indeed, there is evidence that hosts unmask social parasites and their eggs, in P. biglumis (Cervo and Lorenzi, 1996a;Lorenzi and Filippone, 2000;Lorenzi, 2006) and in other social insects (e.g., Achenbach and Foitzik, 2009;Pamminger et al, 2013). We expect that this ability selects for deception strategies in parasites, which might include changes in the chemical signature such as higher proportion of long-chained and branched hydrocarbons.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Divergence in Cuticular Chemical Signatures between Isolated Populations of an Intraspecific Social Parasite

Lorenzi

Azzani

2017

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Parental care is costly enough that species exist which exploit the parental care of other individuals to rear their own brood, as social parasites do among social insects. Intraspecific, facultative social parasites use the nest and worker force of another colony of the same species to rear their own young as a reproductive strategy alternative to independent nest foundation. Intraspecific parasites face barriers similar to those of interspecific social parasites: they must bypass host nestmate recognition abilities and keep host workers under control. In the present study, we investigate the cuticular chemical signature of Polistes biglumis paper wasps when they behave as intraspecific social parasites and invade conspecific colonies. We performed our analysis on three geographically separated populations, which differ in their social structure; in one population foundresses regularly produce workers, whereas in the others they rarely do. We tested whether the chemical signature of females which parasitize conspecific colonies resembles that of females who found their colonies, and if this effect is similar among populations with high and low numbers of workers. Our results show that in the two populations where foundresses produce virtually no workers, the hydrocarbon signatures of intraspecific social parasites were not chemically distinct from those of the foundresses. In contrast, in the population where foundresses usually produce workers, the hydrocarbon signatures of intraspecific social parasites had a significantly larger proportion of long-chained and branched hydrocarbons than those of foundresses. These characteristics may have evolved in that population to facilitate parasite exploitation of the host workforce, as long-chained and branched hydrocarbons are relevant as recognition and fertility cues. The lack of workers in the other populations may have relaxed the selection pressure that host workers impose on the chemical signature of intraspecific social parasites.

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Geographic distribution of the anti-parasite trait “slave rebellion”

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Problems of multi-species organisms: endosymbionts to holobionts

Problems of multi-species organisms: endosymbionts to holobionts

Enslaved ants: not as helpless as they were thought to be

Divergence in Cuticular Chemical Signatures between Isolated Populations of an Intraspecific Social Parasite

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