Reproductive parasitism by worker honey bees suppressed by queens through regulation of worker mandibular secretions
| Autor: | Christian Walter Werner Pirk, Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf, F.N. Mumoki, Robin M. Crewe |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Dominance-Subordination Male Bodily Secretions Competitive Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Zoology Parasitism lcsh:Medicine Insect Mandible Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Intraspecific competition Article Pheromones Sexual Behavior Animal Animals Scent Glands Social Behavior Symbiosis lcsh:Science media_common Multidisciplinary Reproduction fungi lcsh:R food and beverages Honey bee Bees Chemical ecology 010602 entomology Social Dominance Sex pheromone behavior and behavior mechanisms Pheromone Female lcsh:Q Social evolution |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Social cohesion in social insect colonies can be achieved through the use of chemical signals whose production is caste-specific and regulated by social contexts. In honey bees, queen mandibular gland pheromones (QMP) maintain reproductive dominance by inhibiting ovary activation and production of queen-like mandibular gland signals in workers. We investigated whether honey bee queens can control reproductively active workers of the intraspecific social parasite Apis mellifera capensis, parasitising A. m. scutellata host colonies. Our results show that the queen’s QMP suppresses ovarian activation and inhibits the production of QMP pheromone signals by the parasitic workers, achieved through differential expression of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of these pheromones at two points in the biosynthetic pathway. This is the first report showing that honey bee queens can regulate reproduction in intraspecific social parasites and deepens our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of worker reproduction in social insects. |
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