Social behaviour of an Australian paper wasp,Ropalidia plebeiana, with special reference to the process of acceptance of an alien female

1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosiaki Itô
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Paper Wasp

scholarly journals Nesting biology and Social behaviour of Paper wasp (Polistes flavus) and Honey bee (Apis mellifera) in District Mansehra, Pakistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86
Author(s):  
Muzafar Shah ◽  
Mian Sayed Khan ◽  
Muhammad Ather Rafi ◽  
Sardar Azhar Mehmood ◽  
Muhammad Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Honey Bee ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Paper Wasp ◽  
Nesting Biology

Social Behaviour in Animals. With Special Reference to Vertebrates

Bird-Banding ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
M. M. Nice ◽  
N. Tinbergen
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Social Behaviour

scholarly journals Transcriptomics of an extended phenotype: parasite manipulation of wasp social behaviour shifts expression of caste-related genes

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1852) ◽  
pp. 20170029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Geffre ◽  
Ruolin Liu ◽  
Fabio Manfredini ◽  
Laura Beani ◽  
Jeyaraney Kathirithamby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Expression Patterns ◽  
Paper Wasp ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Brain Gene Expression ◽  
Brain Transcriptome ◽  
Social Caste ◽  
Worker Caste ◽  
Host Behaviour

Parasites can manipulate host behaviour to increase their own transmission and fitness, but the genomic mechanisms by which parasites manipulate hosts are not well understood. We investigated the relationship between the social paper wasp, Polistes dominula , and its parasite, Xenos vesparum (Insecta: Strepsiptera), to understand the effects of an obligate endoparasitoid on its host's brain transcriptome. Previous research suggests that X. vesparum shifts aspects of host social caste-related behaviour and physiology in ways that benefit the parasitoid. We hypothesized that X. vesparum -infested (stylopized) females would show a shift in caste-related brain gene expression. Specifically, we predicted that stylopized females, who would normally be workers, would show gene expression patterns resembling pre-overwintering queens (gynes), reflecting gyne-like changes in behaviour. We used RNA-sequencing data to characterize patterns of brain gene expression in stylopized females and compared these with those of unstylopized workers and gynes. In support of our hypothesis, we found that stylopized females, despite sharing numerous physiological and life-history characteristics with members of the worker caste, show gyne-shifted brain expression patterns. These data suggest that the parasitoid affects its host by exploiting phenotypic plasticity related to social caste, thus shifting naturally occurring social behaviour in a way that is beneficial to the parasitoid.

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