Nestmate recognition in a neotropical polygynous wasp

Kudô, Kazuyuki; Tsuchida, Koji; Mateus, Sidnei; Zucchi, Ronaldo

doi:10.1007/s00040-007-0911-3

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“…In addition, Kudô 2007 suggests that in colonies of P. paulista the newly emerged workers acquire chemical signatures specific to their colonies within a couple of days after emergence and, in experiments of transfer of individuals between colonies, the acceptance rate of young wasps depends on the stage of the receiver colony (Kudô et al 2010). In the same species, workers are able to distinguish larvae from their own colony from intruders, suggesting that even larvae recognition by workers might be mediated by specific colonial signals (Kudô et al, 2017).…”

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Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

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An important attribute of the evolution and maintenance of sociality in insects is their ability to distinguish members of their own colonies by means of chemical signals during their interactions. Of this type of signals, the cuticular hydrocarbons, responsible among other functions, for intraspecific recognition stand out. Linear alkanes are indicated as the class of compounds that would be most involved in water retention in the body of insects, however, some studies have investigated their role as mediators of interactions. Thus it is possible that there is significant intraspecific variation of its composition, so the objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that linear alkanes vary significantly among populations, castes and sexes, as well as between newly emerged females of different ages of the Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán 1949 wasp. The samples were analyzed by gas chromatography with flame ionization detector and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. The results show that there is a significant variation between the chemical cuticular profiles of samples from different populations, as well as between castes, sex and newly emergent workers of different ages. Therefore, it is possible to infer that this class of compounds may vary according to genetic differences between populations, but also by different environmental conditions. The differences between castes, sex and ages suggest that these compounds may also be involved in mediating interactions between nestmates.

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Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

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“…Results clearly showed that monoandry is the rule for the four Japanese bumble bee species. Reconstructing patrilines is also helpful to understand interactions within and between partrilines in polygynous social insects (Kudô et al, 2007).…”

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Full-sib reconstruction in haplodiploid populations

Toquenaga

Kokuvo²

2010

Appl. Entomol. Zool.

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Estimating colony numbers of invading Bombus terrestris in Japan is the most urgent task for eradicating the alien invasive species. Nests of bumble bees are hardly found in nature. A prospective alternative is estimating the number of nests with polymorphic genetic data of individuals foraging in the field. Full-sib reconstruction from such genetic data is NP-hard in a strict sense, but several heuristic methods have been proposed. Among them, likelihood methods have been often applied for reconstructing full-sibs in nature, but they require relatively large sample sizes for obtaining accuracy in allele frequencies. Alternative methods calculate genetic distances between paired individuals and cluster them into family groups, but there are also pros and cons for applying these methods against real data. We proposed another heuristic pairing and clustering method, Shared Loci Correspondence Analysis (SLCA), for reconstructing full-sib families of haplodipoid populations. In SLCA, genetic similarities among individuals are numbers of loci shared by the paired individuals. The similarity scores are sorted by the correspondence analysis for clustering them into full-sib families. SLCA could be applicable to quite small samples and succeeded to correctly estimate the number of bumble bee nests in the field. We also improved estimation accuracy of SLCA by blunting the similarity index among individuals. The modified SLCA performed almost perfectly against challenging problems when numbers of loci and alleles were equal or greater than eight. Future direction of improving SLCA is discussed.

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“…Discrimination between nestmates and non-nestmates, which are usually kin and non-kin, respectively, is often represented as a higher tolerance towards nestmates than to non-nestmates, and is widely observed among social wasps 8,9,19 . Cuticular hydrocarbons have been thought to be responsible for nestmate recognition because some social wasps are known to have colony-specific hydrocarbon profiles, for example, Dolichovespula maculate 2 , Vespula squamosa, V. macurifrons 1 , Vespa crabro 1,3,16 , Polistes fuscatus 7 , Polistes exclamans 18 , Polistes biglumis bimaculatus: 11,12 , Polistes dominulus 4 , and Polistes satan 21 .…”

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Colony and Caste Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in the Common Japanese Hornet, Vespa analis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Tokoro

Makino

2011

JARQ

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In this study, the influence of individual cuticular hydrocarbons on nestmate recognition in Japanese hornets was investigated. Cuticular hydrocarbons were extracted from the individuals of several colonies of Japanese hornets, Vespa analis Fablicius (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), and analyzed by combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In the case of V. analis, the results of the GC-MS analyses showed 12 major components and 20 minor components. The results showed some intraspecific variation in the quantities of each component of the profiles even within the same colony and same cast. The number of cuticular hydrocarbon compounds of V. analis was relatively high compared with that of V. crabro. Discriminant analysis of the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of the workers and queens showed that the wasps could be grouped by colony and by caste even if the colonies were located at a close distance. The cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of workers and males were different.

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Nestmate recognition in a neotropical polygynous wasp

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

Intraspecific Variation of the Composition of Linear Alkanes in Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis

Full-sib reconstruction in haplodiploid populations

Colony and Caste Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in the Common Japanese Hornet, Vespa analis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

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