ArticleBehavioral ecology and sociobiology2021
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization.
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- Regulation of reproductive and behavioral plasticity in social insects.Current opinion in insect science · 2026Review
- Sequential origin of an alternative colony founding strategy driven by two supergenes in Temnothorax ants.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Supergene regulation of ant social organization: a P haplotype in workers shifts colony ontogeny towards multiple queens.Communications biology · 2025Article
- A supergene-controlling social structure in Alpine ants also affects the dispersal ability and fecundity of each sex.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Iterative evolution of supergene-based social polymorphism in ants.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Effects of social organization and elevation on spatial genetic structure in a montane ant.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
abstractKey social traits, like queen number in eusocial insect colonies, have long been considered plastic, but the recent finding that colony social organization is under strict genetic control in multiple ant lineages challenges this view. This begs the question of which hardwired behavioral mechanism(s) generate alternative forms of social organization during colony development. We addressed this question in the Alpine silver ant, SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Understanding the genetic and behavioral underpinnings of social organization is a major goal in evolutionary biology. Recent studies have shown that colony social organization is controlled by supergenes in multiple ant lineages. But the behavioral processes linking the genotype of a queen to the type of colony she will form remain largely unknown. Here, we show that in Alpine silver ants, alternative supergene genotypes are associated with different levels of social attraction and tolerance in young queens. These hardwired differences in social traits make queens carrying the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00265-021-03105-1.
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