Polydomy in the ant Ectatomma opaciventre
| Autor: | Viviane C. Tofolo, Edilberto Giannotti, Erika F. Neves, Luis H. C. Andrade, Sandro M. Lima, Yzel R. Súarez, William F. Antonialli-Junior, Mario Muscedere |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Programa de pos-graduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Spatial distribution
Nesting Behavior Regular distribution Nest Spectroscopy Fourier Transform Infrared Animals Social Behavior colony organization Chemical signature biology spatial distribution Ecology Ants cuticular hydrocarbons General Medicine biology.organism_classification ANT Ectatomma opaciventre satellite nests Insect Science Papers Queen (butterfly) Ectatomminae Animal Distribution Brazil nestmate recognition |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Insect Science Web of Science Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP Scopus ResearcherID |
| ISSN: | 1536-2442 |
| Popis: | Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:22:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-01-01 Tropical ants commonly exhibit a hyper-dispersed pattern of spatial distribution of nests. In polydomous species, nests may be satellites, that is, secondary structures of the main nest, where the queen is found. In order to evaluate whether the ant Ectatomma opaciventre Roger (Formicidae: Ectatomminae) uses the strategy of building polydomous nests, the spatial distribution pattern of 33 nests in a 1,800 m(2) degraded area located in Rio Claro, SP, Brazil, were investigated using the nearest neighbor method. To complement the results of this investigation, the cuticular chemical profile of eight colonies was analyzed using Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy (FTIR-PAS). The nests of E. opaciventre presented a hyper-dispersed or regular distribution, which is the most common in ants. The analysis of the cuticular hydrocarbons apparently con-firmed the hypothesis that this species is polydomous, since the chemical profiles of all studied colonies with nests at different sites were very similar to the chemical signature of the single found queen and were also different from those of colonies used as control. Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Instituto de Biociências, Centro de estudos de Insetos Sociais (CEIS), Rio Claro/SP, Brazil vivitofolo@yahoo.com.br Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Rio Claro/SP, Brazil edilgian@rc.unesp.br Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, Programa de pós-graduação em Entomologia e Con-servação da Biodiversidade, MS, Brazil erika_snakes@yahoo.com.br Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Centro Integrado de Análise e Monitoramento Ambiental, Dourados/MS, Brazil luis_hca@yahoo.com Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Centro Integrado de Análise e Monitoramento Ambiental, Dourados/MS, Brazil smlima@uems.br Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Centro Integrado de Análise e Monitoramento Ambiental, Dourados/MS, Brazil yzel@uems.br Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Centro Integrado de Análise e Monitoramento Ambiental, Dourados/MS, Brazil williamantonialli@yahoo.com.br |
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