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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Offspring chemical control of adult reproductive transitions in a social insect.

Baptiste Piqueret, Jerrit Weissflog, Sandra Tretter, Tim Zetzsche, Daniel Veit, Stefan Bartram, Rayko Halitschke, Yuko Ulrich

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Baptiste PiqueretLise Meitner Research Group Social Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6506-8522
Jerrit WeissflogMass Spectrometry and Metabolomics, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.
Sandra TretterLise Meitner Research Group Social Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0009-0007-9110-388X
Tim ZetzscheLise Meitner Research Group Social Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.
Daniel VeitMax Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.
Stefan BartramDepartment of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8574-2817
Rayko HalitschkeMass Spectrometry and Metabolomics, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1109-8782
Yuko UlrichLise Meitner Research Group Social Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.

Funding

EC | Horizon Europe | Excellent Science | HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (ERC) 851523
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parental care enhances offspring survival and growth but often entails a trade-off in which caregivers temporarily suppress their own reproduction to invest in existing young. In vertebrates, these parental reproductive cycles are controlled by offspring-derived cues that reduce or suppress parental fertility. While many insects display obligate parental care, the role of offspring cues in regulating adult reproduction remains unresolved outside advanced eusocial taxa, where reproductive cycles have largely been lost. Here, we investigate reproductive cycles in the clonal raider ant

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AntsMothsPheromonesAnimalsFemaleLarvaReproductionSocial BehaviorPheromonesclonal raider antparental carepheromone

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PMID41950093
PMCPMC13079936

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