scholarly journals The Dufour’s gland and the cuticle in the social wasp Ropalidia marginata contain the same hydrocarbons in similar proportions

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mitra ◽  
R. Gadagkar
Keyword(s):  
Social Wasp ◽  
Dufour's Gland ◽  
Ropalidia Marginata ◽  
Dufour’S Gland ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Using a proteometabolomic approach to investigate the role of Dufour's gland in pheromone biosynthesis in the social wasp Polybia paulista

2017 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franciele Grego Esteves ◽  
José Roberto Aparecido dos Santos-Pinto ◽  
Daniel Menezes Saidemberg ◽  
Mario Sergio Palma
Keyword(s):  
Social Wasp ◽  
Pheromone Biosynthesis ◽  
Dufour's Gland ◽  
Dufour’S Gland ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polybia Paulista

Males of the social wasp Ropalidia marginata can feed larvae, given an opportunity

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruchira Sen ◽  
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Keyword(s):  
Social Wasp ◽  
Ropalidia Marginata ◽  
The Social

Pre-imaginal biasing of caste in a primitively eusocial insect

1988 ◽  
Vol 233 (1271) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Social Wasp ◽  
Caste Differentiation ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Ropalidia Marginata ◽  
Eusocial Insect ◽  
Eusocial Insects ◽  
Insect Societies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Primitively Eusocial

Primitively eusocial insects often lack morphological caste differentiation, leading to considerable flexibility in the social and reproductive roles that the adult insects may adopt. Although this flexibility and its consequences for social organization have received much attention there has been relatively little effort to detect any pre-imaginal effects leading to a bias in the potential caste of eclosing females. Experiments reported here show that only about 50 % of eclosing females of the tropical social wasp Ropalidia marginata build nests and lay eggs, in spite of being isolated from all conspecifics and being provided ad libitum food since eclosion. The number of empty cells in the parent nest, which we believe to be an indication of the queen’s declining influence, and a wasp’s own rate of feeding during adult life predict the probability of egg laying by eclosing females. These results call for an examination of the possibility that all females in primitively eusocial insect societies are not potentially capable of becoming egg layers and that reigning queens and possibly other adults exert an influence on the production of new queens.

Nestmate discrimination in the social wasp Ropalidia marginata: chemical cues and chemosensory mechanism

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniruddha Mitra ◽  
Arathy Ramachandran ◽  
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Cues ◽  
Social Wasp ◽  
Ropalidia Marginata ◽  
Nestmate Discrimination ◽  
The Social

Chemical communication in Ropalidia marginata: Dufour's gland contains queen signal that is perceived across colonies and does not contain colony signal

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniruddha Mitra ◽  
Paromita Saha ◽  
Maximilian Elihu Chaoulideer ◽  
Anindita Bhadra ◽  
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Communication ◽  
Dufour's Gland ◽  
Ropalidia Marginata ◽  
Dufour’S Gland ◽  
Queen Signal
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