Reports on investigations of uranium anomalies. National Uranium Resource Evaluation

Goodknight, Craig S.; Bürger, Johanna

doi:10.2172/6634341

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“…We used the RELATEDNESS program (version 4.2) of Goodknight and Queller (15), based on the logic of Queller and Goodnight (16), to estimate the mean relatedness among wasps.…”

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Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

Nonacs

et al. 1998

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Many ''workers'' in north temperate colonies of the eusocial paper wasp Polistes fuscatus disappear within a few days of eclosion. We provide evidence that these females are pursuing an alternative reproductive strategy, i.e., dispersing to overwinter and become nest foundresses the following spring, instead of helping to rear brood on their natal nests. A female is most likely to stay and help at the natal nest (i.e., least likely to disperse) when it is among the first workers to emerge and when it emerges on a nest with more pupae (even though worker-brood relatedness tends to be lower in such colonies). The latter cause may result from the fact that pupae-laden nests are especially likely to survive, and thus any direct or indirect reproductive payoffs for staying and working are less likely to be lost. Disappearing females are significantly smaller than predicted if dispersal tendency was independent of body size (emergence order-controlled), suggesting that the females likely to be most effective at challenging for reproductive rights within the natal colony (i.e., the largest females) are also most likely to stay. Thus, early dispersal is conditional on a female's emergence order, the maturity of its natal nest, and its body size. Finally, we present evidence that foundresses may actively limit the sizes of first-emerging females, perhaps to decrease the probability that the latter can effectively challenge foundresses for reproductive rights. The degree to which foundresses limit the size of first-emerging females accords well with the predictions of the theory of staying incentives.

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“…We used the RELATEDNESS program (version 4.2) of Goodknight and Queller (15), based on the logic of Queller and Goodnight (16), to estimate the mean relatedness among wasps.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

Nonacs

et al. 1998

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…We also obtained the genotypes of 71 late-female larvae and 143 male larvae (third^¢fth instars) from 15 of the 1995 colonies. We used the Relatedness 4.2 program (Goodknight & Queller (1994), based on the logic of Queller & Goodknight (1989)) to estimate the mean relatedness among cofoundresses.…”

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Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps

Reeve

Starks

Peters

et al. 2000

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Recent evolutionary models of reproductive partitioning within animal societies (known as`optimal skew',`concessions' or`transactional' models) predict that a dominant individual will often yield some fraction of the group's reproduction to a subordinate as an incentive to stay in the group and help rear the dominant's o¡spring. These models quantitatively predict how the magnitude of the subordinate's`staying incentive' will vary with the genetic relatedness between dominant and subordinate, the overall expected group output and the subordinate's expected output if it breeds solitarily. We report that these predictions accord remarkably well with the observed reproductive partitioning between conesting dominant and subordinate queens in the social paper wasp Polistes fuscatus. In particular, the theory correctly predicts that (i) the dominant's share of reproduction, i.e. the skew, increases as the colony cycle progresses and (ii) the skew is positively associated both with the colony's productivity and with the relatedness between dominant and subordinate. Moreover, aggression between foundresses positively correlated with the skew, as predicted by transactional but not alternative tug-of-war models of societal evolution. Thus, our results provide the strongest quantitative support yet for a unifying model of social evolution.

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Reports on investigations of uranium anomalies. National Uranium Resource Evaluation

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Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps

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