کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5538621 1552204 2017 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Queen personality type predicts nest-guarding behaviour, colony size and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
نوع شخصیت ملکه، رفتارهای نگهداری لانه، اندازه کلنی و تهاجم جمعی متعاقب آن را پیش بینی می کند
کلمات کلیدی
پرخاشگری، جسارت، رفتار جمعی، رفتار بنیادی، تنوع فردی، مشکی کاغذی، شخصیت، متریک پلاستیک ها،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
چکیده انگلیسی
The founding individuals of a new group or lineage are uniquely poised to have long-lasting effects on their descendants. Here we explore how the behavioural traits of new foundresses influence their task allocation strategies and the downstream collective behaviour of their colonies. We collected individual paper wasp (Polistes metricus) queens from the wild and measured their boldness, aggressiveness, exploration, activity and time budgets in the laboratory. We then provided queens with food and nest materials and waited for their workers to eclose. We subsequently tested for links between queen behavioural traits (e.g. boldness, aggressiveness) and the collective aggressiveness of their colonies, as estimated by the number of workers that responded to and stung a model predator. We found that bolder queens (i.e. queens that were less likely to leave their nests after repeated exposure to an agonistic stimulus) spent more time nest guarding, reared more workers and produced groups that were less responsive to a model predator. Thus, there appears to be parent-offspring, or queen-worker, resemblance in the degree to which individuals remain on their nests in different social contexts (solitary queen versus queen + her worker group). To our knowledge this represents the first study to explicitly test for links between individual variation in foundress behaviour, worker production and intercolony collective behaviour; the results highlight the possibility that cross-contextual and transgenerational behavioural links could be a reasonably common and potentially important phenomenon in complex societies.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Animal Behaviour - Volume 124, February 2017, Pages 7-13
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