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ArticlePeerJ2019

The role of juvenile hormone in regulating reproductive physiology and dominance in

Victoria C Norman, Tobias Pamminger, Fabio Nascimento, William O H Hughes

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Article in PeerJ, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  2. Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants.Current opinion in insect science · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Victoria C NormanSchool of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Tobias PammingerSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Fabio NascimentoDepartamento de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
William O H HughesSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
University of Sussex · GBUniversidade de Ribeirão Preto · BR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unequal reproductive output among members of the same sex (reproductive skew) is a common phenomenon in a wide range of communally breeding animals. In such species, reproductive dominance is often acquired during antagonistic interactions between group members that establish a reproductive hierarchy in which only a few individuals reproduce. Rank-specific syndromes of behavioural and physiological traits characterize such hierarchies, but how antagonistic behavioural interactions translate into stable rank-specific syndromes remains poorly understood. The pleiotropic nature of hormones makes them prime candidates for generating such syndromes as they physiologically integrate environmental (social) information, and often affect reproduction and behaviour simultaneously. Juvenile hormone (JH) is one of several hormones that occupy such a central regulatory role in insects and has been suggested to regulate reproductive hierarchies in a wide range of social insects including ants. Here we use experimental manipulation to investigate the effect of JH levels on reproductive physiology and social dominance in high-ranked workers of the eusocial ant

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EusocialityReproductive skewSocial dominanceSocial hierarchySocial insect

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PMID30842903
PMCPMC6398374
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