ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Kinship, parental manipulation and evolutionary origins of eusociality.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fraternal cooperation of hierarchical cancer parallels metazoan multicellularity and eusociality.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Role specialization and reproductive division of labour at the origin of eusociality.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Maternal manipulation of offspring size can trigger the evolution of eusociality in promiscuous species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Low heat tolerance and high desiccation resistance in nocturnal bees and the implications for nocturnal pollination under climate change.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sibling quality and the haplodiploidy hypothesis.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Reproductive skew in cooperative breeding: Environmental variability, antagonistic selection, choice, and control.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- A split sex ratio in solitary and social nests of a facultatively social bee.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Wild Bee Pollen Usage and Microbial Communities Co-vary Across Landscapes.Microbial ecology · 2019Article
- Parental manipulation of offspring size in social groups: a test using paper wasps.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2019Article
- Hamilton's rule is essential but insufficient for understanding monogamy's role in social evolution.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Genetic accommodation and the role of ancestral plasticity in the evolution of insect eusociality.The Journal of experimental biology · 2018Review
- Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae).Molecular biology and evolution · 2018Article
- Monogamy promotes altruistic sterility in insect societies.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Limited social plasticity in the socially polymorphic sweat beeBehavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2018Article
- Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Stable eusociality via maternal manipulation when resistance is costless.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
One of the hallmarks of eusociality is that workers forego their own reproduction to assist their mother in raising siblings. This seemingly altruistic behaviour may benefit workers if gains in indirect fitness from rearing siblings outweigh the loss of direct fitness. If worker presence is advantageous to mothers, however, eusociality may evolve without net benefits to workers. Indirect fitness benefits are often cited as evidence for the importance of inclusive fitness in eusociality, but have rarely been measured in natural populations. We compared inclusive fitness of alternative social strategies in the tropical sweat bee, Megalopta genalis, for which eusociality is optional. Our results show that workers have significantly lower inclusive fitness than females that found their own nests. In mathematical simulations based on M. genalis field data, eusociality cannot evolve with reduced intra-nest relatedness. The simulated distribution of alternative social strategies matched observed distributions of M. genalis social strategies when helping behaviour was simulated as the result of maternal manipulation, but not as worker altruism. Thus, eusociality in M. genalis is best explained through kin selection, but the underlying mechanism is likely maternal manipulation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.