Ant Queen
Mostrando 1-12 de 25 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Winged ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) presence in twigs on the leaf litter of Atlantic Forest
Resumo: Na serapilheira as formigas têm disponíveis diversos recursos de nidificação, como troncos e galhos vivos ou mortos, folhas, frutos e sementes. Nos galhos são encontrados indivíduos adultos e imaturos, mas também rainha e alados. A produção de alados exige tempo e energia por parte da colônia. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a presen
Biota Neotrop.. Publicado em: 09/05/2019
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2. Aflatoxins produced by Aspergillus nomius ASR3, a pathogen isolated from the leaf-cutter ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa
ABSTRACT Aspergillus spp. cause economic impacts due to aflatoxins production. Although the toxicity of aflatoxins is already known, little information about their ecological roles is available. Here we investigated the compounds produced by Aspergillus nomius ASR3 directly from a dead leaf-cutter queen ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa and the fungal axenic cult
Rev. bras. farmacogn.. Publicado em: 2017-08
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3. Protein content of leaf-cutting ant queens before the nuptial flight and during the post-claustral phase
Protein content of leaf-cutting ant queens before the nuptial flight and during the post-claustral phase. This study evaluated the crude protein content of queens of Atta sexdens before the nuptial flight and after the claustral phase in laboratory and field colonies. The hypothesis was that protein is used for survival of the queen and for early colony grow
Rev. Bras. entomol.. Publicado em: 21/11/2014
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4. Multiple queens in founding colonies of the neotropical ant Pachycondyla striata smith (Formicidae: Ponerinae)
In social insects, the typical mode of colony foundation occurs when a single queen is inseminated by a male and establishes a new colony, although we can find interspecific and intraspecific variations in queen number and queen-mating frequencies in a single colony. This study aimed to verify the queen number in Pachycondyla striata (Smith) colonies and to
Neotropical Entomology. Publicado em: 2011-06
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5. Bioecology and chemical diversity of abdominal glands in the iranian samsum ant Pachycondyla sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae)
The genus Pachycondyla is a large group of ants in the Ponerini tribe, known mostly from tropical and subtropical regions. Pachycondyla sennaarensis, the so-called Samsum ant in the Middle East, is distributed throughout the African tropics, Arabian Peninsula and Iran, where it is responsible for many cases of insect-induced dermal lesions and systemic react
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases. Publicado em: 2009
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6. Influência da comunidade microbiana do solo no estabelecimento de sauveiros iniciais de Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) / Influence of soil microbial community on the establishment of ant nests of Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
O presente trabalho teve como objetivo comparar o estabelecimento de sauveiros iniciais em duas áreas de cultivo de cana-de-açúcar com solos de diferentes texturas (médio-argilosa e argilosa) e verificar a influência dos fatores químicos e microbiológicos desses solos no estabelecimento de formigueiros iniciais de A. sexdens rubropilosa. Os sauveiros
Publicado em: 2008
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7. Sintese total e estereosseletiva do (+-)-invictolideo. Componente do feromonio de reconhecimento da formiga Solenopsis invicta
Invictolide (1), a component of the queen recognition pheromone of Solenopsis invicta (imported fire ant) has been synthesized through three different routes, the relative stereochemistry at C(5), C(6) and C(1 ) being established using stereoselective aldols condensations (Scheme LXVIII). Route A required eight steps (24% overall yield) starting with the add
Publicado em: 1991
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8. Surface hydrocarbons of queen eggs regulate worker reproduction in a social insect
A hitherto largely unresolved problem in behavioral biology is how workers are prevented from reproducing in large insect societies with high relatedness. Signals of the queen are assumed to inform the nestmates about her presence in the colony, which leads to indirect fitness benefits for workers. In the ant Camponotus floridanus, we found such a signal loc
National Academy of Sciences.
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9. When can ants discriminate the sex of brood? A new aspect of queen-worker conflict.
The stage in preimaginal ontogeny at which the sexes can first be distinguished has important implications for queen-worker conflict in social insects. If workers are unable to sex larvae at an early instar, their opportunity to control colony reproductive strategies may be limited. In addition, by concealing the sex of her sons for some portion of developme
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10. Are variations in cuticular hydrocarbons of queens and workers a reliable signal of fertility in the ant Harpegnathos saltator?
One of the key features of insect societies is the division of labor in reproduction between one or a few fertile individuals and many sterile nestmates that function as helpers. The behavioral and physiological mechanisms regulating reproduction in ant societies are still not very well understood, especially in species in which all colony members are r
The National Academy of Sciences.
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11. Hierarchical Analysis of Genetic Structure in Native Fire Ant Populations: Results from Three Classes of Molecular Markers
We describe genetic structure at various scales in native populations of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta using two classes of nuclear markers, allozymes and microsatellites, and markers of the mitochondrial genome. Strong structure was found at the nest level in both the monogyne (single queen) and polygyne (multiple queen) social forms using allozymes. Weak
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12. Genetic control of social organization in an ant
A central issue in evolutionary biology is the extent to which complex social organization is under genetic control. We have found that a single genomic element marked by the protein-encoding gene Gp-9 is responsible for the existence of two distinct forms of social organization in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. This genetic factor influences the reproduct
The National Academy of Sciences.