scholarly journals Correction to: Intraspecific variation in colony founding behavior and social organization in the honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-503
Author(s):  
T. H. Eriksson ◽  
B. Hölldobler ◽  
J. E. Taylor ◽  
J. Gadau
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
Colony Founding

scholarly journals Intraspecific variation in colony founding behavior and social organization in the honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-297
Author(s):  
T. H. Eriksson ◽  
B. Hölldobler ◽  
J. E. Taylor ◽  
J. Gadau
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
Colony Founding

scholarly journals Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Blacher ◽  
Ornela De Gasperin ◽  
Michel Chapuisat
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Colony Founding

scholarly journals The evolution of intraspecific variation in social organization

Ethology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 124 (8) ◽  
pp. 527-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Schradin ◽  
Loren D. Hayes ◽  
Neville Pillay ◽  
Cleo Bertelsmeier
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Intraspecific Variation

scholarly journals ADolichoderus taschenbergiQueen Found in a Polygynous Colony ofD. plagiatus(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1995 ◽  
Vol 102 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Diethe Ortius
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Colony Founding

Very little is known about colony founding strategies and social organization of the four North American species of the ant genusDolichoderus. I here report the finding of aDolichoderus taschenbergiqueen in a colony ofD. plagiatus, which suggests parasitic colony founding may occur occasionally inDolichoderus taschenbergi. In addition, the colony contained three reproductively active queens ofD. plagiatus, indicating that this species is facultatively polygynous.

scholarly journals Intraspecific variation in social organization by genetic variation, developmental plasticity, social flexibility or entirely extrinsic factors

2013 ◽  
Vol 368 (1618) ◽  
pp. 20120346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Schradin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
Developmental Plasticity ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Physiological Effects ◽  
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Social Flexibility

Previously, it was widely believed that each species has a specific social organization, but we know now that many species show intraspecific variation in their social organization. Four different processes can lead to intraspecific variation in social organization: (i) genetic variation between individuals owing to local adaptation (between populations) or evolutionarily stable strategies within populations; (ii) developmental plasticity evolved in long-term (more than one generation) unpredictable and short-term (one generation) predictable environments, which is mediated by organizational physiological effects during early ontogeny; (iii) social flexibility evolved in highly unpredictable environments, which is mediated by activational physiological effects in adults; (iv) entirely extrinsic factors such as the death of a dominant breeder. Variation in social behaviour occurs between individuals in the case of genetic variation and developmental plasticity, but within individuals in the case of social flexibility. It is important to study intraspecific variation in social organization to understand the social systems of species because it reveals the mechanisms by which species can adapt to changing environments, offers a useful tool to study the ultimate and proximate causes of sociality, and is an interesting phenomenon by itself that needs scientific explanation.

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