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J Insect Physiol


Title:Chemical communication in Ropalidia marginata: Dufour's gland contains queen signal that is perceived across colonies and does not contain colony signal
Author(s):Mitra A; Saha P; Chaoulideer ME; Bhadra A; Gadagkar R;
Address:"Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. aniruddha@ces.iisc.ernet.in"
Journal Title:J Insect Physiol
Year:2011
Volume:20101126
Issue:2
Page Number:280 - 284
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.11.014
ISSN/ISBN:1879-1611 (Electronic) 0022-1910 (Linking)
Abstract:"Queens of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata appear to maintain reproductive monopoly through pheromone rather than through physical aggression. Upon queen removal, one of the workers (potential queen, PQ) becomes extremely aggressive but drops her aggression immediately upon returning the queen. If the queen is not returned, the PQ gradually drops her aggression and becomes the next queen of the colony. In a previous study, the Dufour's gland was found to be at least one source of the queen pheromone. Queen-worker classification could be done with 100% accuracy in a discriminant analysis, using the compositions of their respective Dufour's glands. In a bioassay, the PQ dropped her aggression in response to the queen's Dufour's gland macerate, suggesting that the queen's Dufour's gland contents mimicked the queen herself. In the present study, we found that the PQ also dropped her aggression in response to the macerate of a foreign queen's Dufour's gland. This suggests that the queen signal is perceived across colonies. This also suggests that the Dufour's gland in R. marginata does not contain information about nestmateship, because queens are attacked when introduced into foreign colonies, and hence PQ is not expected to reduce her aggression in response to a foreign queen's signal. The latter conclusion is especially significant because the Dufour's gland chemicals are adequate to classify individuals correctly not only on the basis of fertility status (queen versus worker) but also according to their colony membership, using discriminant analysis. This leads to the additional conclusion (and precaution) that the ability to statistically discriminate organisms using their chemical profiles does not necessarily imply that the organisms themselves can make such discrimination"
Keywords:"Aggression Animal Communication Animals *Behavior, Animal Discriminant Analysis Female India Pheromones/chemistry/*physiology Reproduction *Social Behavior Social Dominance Wasps/chemistry/*physiology;"
Notes:"MedlineMitra, Aniruddha Saha, Paromita Chaoulideer, Maximilian Elihu Bhadra, Anindita Gadagkar, Raghavendra eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2010/11/30 J Insect Physiol. 2011 Feb; 57(2):280-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.11.014. Epub 2010 Nov 26"

 
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