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Non-kin adoption in the common vampire bat [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Individual animals across many different species occasionally ‘adopt’ unrelated, orphaned offspring. Although adoption may be best explained as a by-product of adaptive traits that enhance parental care or promote the development of parental skills, one ...
Imran Razik +3 more
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Caste-Dependent Interspecific Tolerance Permits Alien Reproductives to Reproduce Within Host Colonies in Reticulitermes Termites Under Laboratory Conditions [PDF]
InsectsNestmate recognition is the primary defense mechanism maintaining the integrity of eusocial insect colonies. While social parasitism is widespread in Hymenoptera, it is rarely documented in termites, and the behavioral boundaries preventing interspecific
Zhuang-Dong Bai +3 more
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Reproductive Potential Accelerates Preimaginal Development of Rebel Workers in Apis mellifera
Animals, 2021 Rebel workers develop from eggs laid by the previous queen, before it went swarming and left the colony orphaned, until the emergence of a new queen. In contrast to normal workers developing in the queen’s presence, rebels are set to reproduce and avoid ...
Aneta Strachecka +4 more
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Age at which larvae are orphaned determines their development into typical or rebel workers in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the honeybee, diploid larvae fed with royal jelly develop into reproductive queens, whereas larvae fed with royal jelly for three days only and subsequently with honey and pollen develop into facultatively sterile workers.
Karolina Kuszewska, Michal Woyciechowski
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Sociobiology, 2013 In most lower termites, colonies are headed by neotenic reproductives of both sexes after the primary reproductives (i.e., the queen and king) are lost.
Yasushi Miyaguni +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2014 Reproductive systems of termite colonies may involve the number of individuals in the reproductive caste and the copulatory selectivity of reproductive individuals (i.e., polyandry or polygamy), both of which directly impact the fertility and genetic ...
Jia Wu +4 more
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Sociobiology, 2015 In nature, Atta cephalotes (L.) is a monogynous species. Each colony has a single, permanent queen fed and protected by thousands of sterile workers. At death the queen colony practically disappears.
Guillermo Sotelo +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2005 The effect of removing the functional pair of Kalotermes flavicollis from an experimental colony for 12, 24 or 48 h and the repeated removal for a particular number of hours per day (2, 4, 6, 12, 18, 20, and 22 h) was studied.
Jiří KINDL, Ivan HRDÝ
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European Journal of Entomology, 2004 The inhibitory potential of primary and secondary reproductives was studied using half-orphaned colonies of Kalotermes flavicollis. Both primary and secondary reproductives (neotenics) were equally effective in inhibiting the development of replacement ...
Jiří KINDL
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Worker reproduction of the invasive yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes
Frontiers in Zoology, 2017 Background Reproductive division of labor is one of the key features of social insects. Queens are adapted for reproduction while workers are adapted for foraging and colony maintenance. In many species, however, workers retain functional ovaries and can
Ching-Chen Lee +10 more
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