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...Margarita Orlova; Jesse Starkey; Etya Amsalem ABSTRACT The mechanisms that maintain reproductive division of labor in social insects are still incompletely understood. Most studies focus on the relationship between adults, overlooking another important stakeholder – the juveniles. Recent studies...

... Peroxidation: Inhibition, Effects and Mechanisms (ed. A.   Catalá ). Nova Science Pub Inc . Keller , L. and Jemielity , S. ( 2006 ). Social insects as a model to study the molecular basis of ageing . Exp. Gerontol.   41 , 553 - 556 . 10.1016/j.exger.2006.04.002 Korb , J...

... Social insect Foraging strategy Decision making Orientation Ants deploy a large variety of foraging strategies, ranging from solitary hunting to the recruitment of bigger groups via chemical communication Hölldobler and Wilson (1990) . Optimal-foraging theory tries to explain these foraging...

... honey bee sociability but there was no evidence for a critical period for the development of the trait, as isolated bees exposed to their hive for 24 h when as old as 6 days still recovered high levels of sociability. Our data show that, even for advanced social insects, sociability is a developmental...

... of resources leads to the development of a worker phenotype and hence reproductive hierarchy in a subsocial bee. Maternal manipulation Division of labor Small carpenter bee Social evolution Worker behavior Phenotypic plasticity Social insect Maternal manipulation has been posited...

...Kenji Matsuura; Joel D. Levine; Daniel J. C. Kronauer; Michael H. Dickinson ABSTRACT One major advantage of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction is its promotion of genetic variation, although it reduces the genetic contribution to offspring. Queens of social insects double...

... Navigation Social insect Precocious forager Reversal learning Honey bees ( Apis mellifera L.), like many social insects, demonstrate temporal polyethism: changing their role in the colony as they age. The sequence of tasks is predictable, with young adult bees working initially on in-hive tasks...

...Victoria C. Norman; William O. H. Hughes ABSTRACT Division of labour in social insects represents a major evolutionary transition, but the physiological mechanisms that regulate this are still little understood. Experimental work with honey bees, and correlational analyses in other social insects...

... and function as neuromediators, i.e. neurotransmitters, neuromodulators or neurohormones ( Evans, 1980 ; Brown and Nestler, 1985 ; Roeder, 1994 ; Manastirioti, 1999; Scheiner et al., 2006 ). OA has been linked to nestmate recognition in social insects such as honeybees ( Robinson et al., 1999 ) and ants...