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Gene dynamics of haplodiploidy favor eusociality in the Hymenoptera

Evolution, Volume 76, Issue 7, Page 1546-1555, July 2022., 2022
Abstract The problem of whether haplodiploidy is responsible for the frequent evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera remains unresolved. The little‐known “protected invasion hypothesis” posits that because a male will transmit a new allele for alloparental care to all his daughters under haplodiploidy, such an allele has a higher probability of ...
Jack da Silva
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Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps

Biological Reviews, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 1645-1675, August 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The aculeate wasps are one of the most diverse and speciose insect taxa; they are omnipresent across ecosystems and exhibit diverse co‐evolutionary and exploitative associations with other organisms. There is widespread conjecture that aculeate wasps are likely to perform essential ecological and economic services of importance to the health ...
Ryan E. Brock, Alessandro Cini, Seirian Sumner   +2 more
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Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the paper wasp Polistes riparius (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
The paper wasp Polistes riparius is distributed in cold regions of northern East Asia to Russia. P. riparius are characterized by having longer cells than those of the closely related P.
Kazuhisa Yamasaki, Katsuhiko Sayama, Tomoki Oishi, Kanae Nakahama, Masato Yoshioka, Hisashi Okuyama, Jun-ichi Takahashi   +6 more
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Caste differences in Pseudopolybia compressa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) [PDF]

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009
Studies of morphological caste syndromes in the tribe Epiponini help us to understand the evolution of social behavior in insects. Few studies have integrated morphological syndromes of various species from the same or distinct genera. We studied morphological differences between castes from three colonies of Pseudopolybia compressa de Saussure, 1854 ...
Pizarro, Laura Chavarría, Noll, Fernando Barbosa, Mateus, Sidnei   +2 more
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The Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Polistinae

Sociobiology, 2019
The forest fragmentation is caused by natural or anthropic actions, which affect negatively the biota and the environmental services rendered by biological diversity. However, there is little information on the reflex of these actions in many different groups of animals, such as social wasps, which are abundant and significantly present in neotropical ...
Bueno, E. T., Souza, M. M., Clemente, M. A.   +2 more
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Parasitoids of Polistes myersi Bequaert, 1934 (Vespidae, Polistinae)

Sociobiology, 2020
Information about parasitoids of neotropical vespids is scarce. Parasitoids collected from 43 colonies of Polistes  myersi Bequaert, 1934 and one ofPolistes erythrocephalus Latreille, 1813 are reported from an Andean region of Colombia.  Colony parasitism rates in P.
Daniela Mayorga-Ch., Carlos E Sarmiento
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Social wasps (Hymenoptera, Polistinae) from the Brazilian savanna

Sociobiology, 2020
The present study was developed aiming to evaluate the richness and biogeography of social wasp species in the Brazilian savanna, Cerrado. In order to do so, we gathered data from specialized literature and field samplings performed at Sempre-Vivas National Park, northeastern Minas Gerais state.
Marcos Magalhães de Souza, Gabriel Silva Teófilo-Guedes, Ederson Tadeu Bueno, Lucas Rocha Milani, Alex Sandro Barros de Souza   +4 more
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First evidence of wasp brood development inside active nests of a termite with the description of a previously unknown potter wasp species

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 23, Page 12663-12674, December 2020., 2020
We describe a previously unknown potter wasp species, Montezumia termitophila sp. nov. (Vespidae: Eumeninae). Also, we provide the first evidence of wasp brood development inside active nests of the termite Constrictotermes cyphergaster (Silvestri, 1901) (Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae).
Helder Hugo, Marcel G. Hermes, Bolívar R. Garcete‐Barrett, Iain D. Couzin   +3 more
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The Cuticular Hydrocarbons Profiles in the Colonial Recognition of the Neotropical Eusocial Wasp, Mischocyttarus cassununga (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Sociobiology, 2015
Cuticular hydrocarbons are chemical messengers with fundamental role in information transfer on the nestmate recognition, physical or behavioral caste, age, task specialization and reproductive status among individuals of colony.
André Sunao Nishiuchi Murakami, Túlio Marcos Nunes, Ivan Cesar Desuó, Sulene Noriko Shima, Sidnei Mateus   +4 more
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Diversity and distribution of wasps and bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Apidae) in the Gauhati University Campus, Kamrup Metro, Assam, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa
The diversity and distribution of wasps and bees in the Gauhati University campus, Kamrup Metro, Assam was investigated in four different habitats: campus gardens, grasslands, residential areas, and areas adjacent to wetlands. Specimens were observed or
Briyanka Kashyap, Jinti Das, Malabika Kakati Saikia, Prasanta Kumar Saikia   +3 more
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