Egg-laying 'intermorphs' in the ant Crematogaster smithi neither affect sexual production nor male parentage.

Autor: Jan Oettler, Michiel B Dijkstra, Jürgen Heinze

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 10, p e75278 (2013)

We study male parentage and between-colony variation in sex allocation and sexual production in the desert ant Crematogaster smithi, which usually has only one singly-mated queen per nest. Colonies of this species are known to temporarily store nutri

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The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

Autor: Volker Flegel, Jürgen Heinze, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Miguel Corona, Jane Oakey, Nicolas Hulo, Li Long, DeWayne Shoemaker, Michael A. D. Goodisman, Jan Oettler, Chin-Cheng Yang, John Wang, Emmanuel Beaudoing, Pekka Pamilo, William G. Farmerie, Lorenzo Cerutti, Soojin V. Yi, Roberto Fabbretti, Michiel B. Dijkstra, Oksana Riba-Grognuz, Erin D. Cook, Fabien Comtesse, Heinz Stockinger, Laurent Farinelli, Krista K. Ingram, Sylvain Pradervand, Laurent Keller, Mingkwan Nipitwattanaphon, Wen-Jer Wu, Laurent Falquet, Sanne Nygaard, Brendan G. Hunt, Keith Harshman, Ioannis Xenarios, Jérôme Thomas, Dietrich Gotzek, Cheng-Jen Shih, Yannick Wurm

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, no. 14, pp. 5679-5684
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Ants have evolved very complex societies and are key ecosystem members. Some ants, such as the fire ant Solenopsis invicta , are also major pests. Here, we present a draft genome of S. invicta , assembled from Roche 454 and Illumina sequencing reads

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Sperm length evolution in the fungus-growing ants

Autor: Boris Baer, Michiel B. Dijkstra, Ulrich G. Mueller, David R. Nash, Jacobus J. Boomsma

Publikováno v: Behavioral Ecology. 20:38-45

Eusocial insects offer special opportunities for the comparative study of sperm traits because sperm competition is absent (in species with obligatory monandry) or constrained (in lineages where queens mate multiply but never remate later in life). W

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https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arn112

Self-restraint and sterility in workers of Acromyrmex and Atta leafcutter ants

Autor: David R. Nash, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Michiel B. Dijkstra

Publikováno v: Dijkstra, M B, Nash, D R & Boomsma, J J 2005, ' Self-restraint and sterility in workers of Acromyrmex and Atta leafcutter ants ', Insectes Sociaux, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 67-76 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-004-0775-8

Udgivelsesdato: February, 2005 Queens of leafcutter ants (Acromyrmex and Atta) are highly multiply mated, resulting in a potential queenworker and worker-worker conflict over who should produce the males in the colony. We studied whether this conflic

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-004-0775-8

Workers of Acromyrmex echinatior leafcutter ants police worker-laid eggs, but not reproductive workers

Autor: Jacobus J. Boomsma, Michiel B. Dijkstra, Maria Dirchsen, Jelle S. van Zweden

Nonreproductive workers of many eusocial Hymenoptera 'police' the colony, that is, they attack reproductive sister workers or destroy their eggs (unfertilized; developing into haploid males). Several ultimate causes of policing have been proposed, in

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https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/357266