Direkt zum Inhalt

Heinze, Jürgen ; Hölldobler, B. ; Peters, C.

Conflict and Cooperation in Ant Societies

Heinze, Jürgen, Hölldobler, B. and Peters, C. (1994) Conflict and Cooperation in Ant Societies. Naturwissenschaften 81 (11), pp. 489-497.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 05 Aug 2009 13:59
Article
DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.8435


Abstract

We review the different levels of reproductive conflict within ant societies. Workers and queens may disagree about sex allocation and the origin of males. Other conflicts arise between queens in multiply queened colonies and occasionally also between workers. These conflicts are resolved either by manipulation, such as sexual deception, changed mating patterns, or pheromonal signaling, or by ...

We review the different levels of reproductive conflict within ant societies. Workers and queens may disagree about sex allocation and the origin of males. Other conflicts arise between queens in multiply queened colonies and occasionally also between workers. These conflicts are resolved either by manipulation, such as sexual deception, changed mating patterns, or pheromonal signaling, or by physical aggression among nestmates. We outline the conditions under which physical aggression occurs and which behaviors are involved in the regulation of reproductive dominance.


Involved Institutions


Details

Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleNaturwissenschaften
Publisher:Springer Verlag
Volume:81
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:11
Page Range:pp. 489-497
Date1994
InstitutionsBiology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze)
KeywordsMULTIPLE-QUEEN COLONIES; SOCIAL INSECTS; EUSOCIAL HYMENOPTERA; WORKER REPRODUCTION; SOLENOPSIS-INVICTA; SEX-RATIOS; LEPTOTHORAX-CURVISPINOSUS; HARPAGOXENUS-SUBLAEVIS; PHEROMONAL INHIBITION; IRIDOMYRMEX-HUMILIS
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 570 Life sciences
500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgNo
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-84353
Item ID8435

Export bibliographical data

Owner only: item control page

nach oben