Paradox of worker reproduction and worker mating in temperate paper wasps,Polistes chinensisandP. snelleni(Hymenoptera Vespidae)
作者:
Tadashi Suzuki,
期刊:
Ethology Ecology & Evolution
(Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 4
页码: 347-359
ISSN:0394-9370
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1080/08927014.1998.9522848
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: paper wasps;Polistes chinensis;Polistes snelleni;worker mating;worker reproduction
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Worker reproduction and worker mating were compared between two temperate paper wasp speciesPolistes chinensisandP. snelleniin central Japan, by dissecting females. As a whole, potential egg-layers (worker reproductives) constituted 14.7% of 273 workers from queen-right colonies and 26.0% of 254 from orphaned colonies inP. chinensis. InP. snelleni, potential egg-layers constituted 8.1% of 307 workers from queen-right colonies and 11.6% of 337 from orphaned colonies. The numbers and proportions of potential egg-layers per colony were also larger inP. chinensisthan inP. snelleni. Despite the presence of more potential egg-layers, there were no inseminated workers inP. chinensiscolonies. By contrast, inP. snelleni8.5 and 18.1% of all workers were inseminated in queenright and orphaned colonies, respectively. The differences between the worker characteristics of the two species were investigated and were concluded to be mainly due to differences in the production schedules of new reproductive females (new queens) and males by the foundress queens.
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