Number of offspring and seasonal changes of their body weight in a paperwasp, <i>Polistes chinensis antennalis</i> Pérez (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with reference to male production by workers

Miyano, Shinya

doi:10.1007/bf02528793

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“…It was also found that gynes were significantly larger than workers and intermediates, in agreement with other studies that evaluated differences in the body size of offspring females in IF polistine wasps (West-Eberhard, 1969;Haggard & Gamboa, 1980;Miyano, 1983). For example, females of Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius) produced in the late post-emergence stage, which were possibly gynes, were larger than workers produced at the beginning of this stage (West-Eberhard, 1969).…”

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Morphological Differences between Reproductive and Non-reproductive Females in the Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Montagna¹,

Antonialli-Júnior²

2016

Sociobiology

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Phenotypic divergence plays an important role in establishment of the reproductive division of labor among castes in eusocial insects; however, little is known about this subject in social wasps. We tested the hypothesis that alpha foundressesin colonial foundations of the independent-founding polistine wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán show greater body size and ovarian development than auxiliary and solitary foundresses. The hypothesis was also tested that females produced in the late post-emergence stage (gynes) are larger than those produced at the beginning (workers) of the colony cycle of this species. Our results showed that the body size of alpha foundresses was significantly greater than that of auxiliary foundresses, but did not differ from that of solitary foundresses. In addition, the alpha had greater ovarian development than the auxiliary and solitary. We also demonstrated that gynes were significantly larger than workers. These results therefore suggest that the phenotype of females emerging in colonies of M. consimilis can vary with the progress of the colony cycle, and that body size and ovarian state are closely linked to the function performed by the foundress.

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Morphological Differences between Reproductive and Non-reproductive Females in the Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Montagna¹,

Antonialli-Júnior²

2016

Sociobiology

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“…comm. ), cited in Miyano (1983), mentions that egg-laying workers in this species compete for reproduction by eating each other's eggs. P. chinensis.…”

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“…However, when workers eat each others' eggs they always immediately replace the killed egg by one of their own. The percentage of eggs that are worker-laid can be very high, sometimes approaching 100% (Miyano 1983;Tsuchida et al 2003;Saigo and Tsuchida 2004). P. dominulus.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Worker Reproduction and Policing in Eusocial Hymenoptera Supports Relatedness Theory

Wenseleers¹,

Ratnieks²

2006

The American Naturalist

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In many bees, wasps, and ants, workers police each other in order to prevent individual workers from selfishly producing their own male offspring. Although several factors can selectively favor worker policing, genetic relatedness is considered to be of special importance. In particular, kin selection theory predicts that worker policing should be more common in species where workers are more related to the queen's sons than to other workers' sons. Here we provide strong novel support for this theory based on a comparative analysis of policing and male parentage in 109 species of ants, bees, and wasps. First, an analysis of behavioral data confirms that worker policing occurs more frequently in species where workers are more related to the queen's sons than to other workers' sons. Second, an analysis of male parentage shows that a significantly higher percentage of the males are workers' sons in species where the workers are more related to other workers' sons. Both conclusions also hold if data are analyzed using phylogenetically independent contrasts. Although our analysis provides strong overall support for the theory that relatedness affects kin conflict over male parentage, there is also significant residual variation. Several factors that may explain this variation are discussed.Keywords: worker policing, queen policing, worker reproduction, social Hymenoptera, inclusive fitness, kin selection.A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to explain how social groups can reduce or prevent costly conflicts

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“…The former is considered to be a queen, and the latter workers. Although sample sizes were quite insufficient for analyses, there seems to be a distinct size gap between female castes in this species ( (Pardi & Marino Piccioli, 1981) or the size of workers gradually increased with season in the temperate region (Miyano, 1983). The only known exception to this is R. ignobilis, in which queens are distinctly larger than workers (size ratio, 1.18 to 1.36 in MSL:…”

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Biometric Comparison of Body Size between Queens and Workers in New Guinean Swarm-founding Ropalidia.

Kojima¹,

Kojima²

1994

Tropics

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Body size was compared between queens and workers in two New Guinean swarmfoudning Ropalidia species, R. banbusae and, R. leopoldi. Queens of R. bambusae tended to have longer mesosoma and lrger metasoma than workers. Although the canonical discriminant analysis using nine morphological characters showed that there was only partial overlap between queens and workers, respective characters of them overlapped considerably if compared separately. Queen/worker size ratio within a colony for the mesosomal length was 1.02, which was smaller than inter-colonial difference.Altttough only one queen and seven workers were available for R. leopoWi, there seem to be distinct size dimorphism in this species. Queen/worker size ratio for mesosomal length was 1.16, and this value was comparable to that in R. montano, which has been known to represent distinct female caste dimorphism.

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Number of offspring and seasonal changes of their body weight in a paperwasp, Polistes chinensis antennalis Pérez (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with reference to male production by workers

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Morphological Differences between Reproductive and Non-reproductive Females in the Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Morphological Differences between Reproductive and Non-reproductive Females in the Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Comparative Analysis of Worker Reproduction and Policing in Eusocial Hymenoptera Supports Relatedness Theory

Biometric Comparison of Body Size between Queens and Workers in New Guinean Swarm-founding Ropalidia.

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