ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2010
The evolution of honest queen pheromones in insect societies.
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- Differences in honeybee queen pheromones revealed by LC-MS/MS: Reassessing the honest signal hypothesis.iScience · 2024Article
- Identification of a queen primer pheromone in higher termites.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Effects of juvenile hormone in fertility and fertility-signaling in workers of the common wasp Vespula vulgaris.PloS one · 2021Article
- Reproduction and signals regulating worker policing under identical hormonal control in social wasps.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The evolution of queen control over worker reproduction in the social Hymenoptera.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Hormonal pleiotropy helps maintain queen signal honesty in a highly eusocial wasp.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Conservation of Queen Pheromones Across Two Species of Vespine Wasps.Journal of chemical ecology · 2016Article
- Chemical signature and reproductive status in the facultatively polygynous ant Pachycondyla verenae.Journal of chemical ecology · 2012Article
- Cooperation, conflict, and the evolution of queen pheromones.Journal of chemical ecology · 2011Review
- Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2010Article
- Queen pheromones: The chemical crown governing insect social life.Communicative & integrative biology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Social insect workers are often capable of reproduction, but will not do so in the presence of a fertile queen. In large societies, queens are expected to produce a pheromone that honestly signals her dominance and/or fertility, to which workers respond by suppressing the development of their ovaries and by preventing other workers from reproducing (worker policing). However, what maintains the honesty of such queen pheromones is still under discussion. The explanation that an honest queen signal evolves simply because it serves the interest of all colony members does not seem to hold, since it is undermined by the fitness benefits of direct reproduction of workers at the individual level. A better explanation may be found in the idea that queen pheromones are difficult to produce for subordinate individuals, either because policing workers attack them, or because queen pheromones are intrinsically costly chemicals. Here, I discuss some of the arguments for and against these hypotheses and the evolutionary scenarios that each would lead to.
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