Ontogeny of superorganisms: Social control of queen specialization in ants

IF 4.6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Functional Ecology Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.14536

Vahideh Majidifar, Marina N. Psalti, Martin Coulm, Ebru Fetzer, Eva-Maria Teggers, Frederik Rotering, Judith Grünewald, Luca Mannella, Maxi Reuter, Dennis Unte, Romain Libbrecht

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超级有机体的本体发育：蚁后专业化的社会控制

虽然蜂王特化过程是超级生物本体发育的核心，但控制多能创始蜂王特化的因素和机制仍然鲜为人知。此外，目前还不清楚蜂王的特化是否与条件有关，也不清楚蜂群建立后蜂王是否会永久特化（即失去表达非生殖行为的能力）。在这项研究中，我们旨在通过研究蚂蚁的蚁后特化来解决这些问题。我们的研究表明，工蚁的存在对于抑制创始蚁后的育雏行为是必要且充分的，从而启动了蚁后在产卵方面的专业化。我们发现蚁后的专业化是可逆的，并且依赖于社会环境，因为在两个蚂蚁物种中，一旦实验性地移除工蚁，蚁后就会重新表达育雏行为。蚁后特化的这种持续的社会调节与蚁后是内在特化的产卵机器的普遍观点相矛盾。

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Functional Ecology 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

1.90%

发文量

243

审稿时长

4 months

期刊介绍： Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.