Dependent colony founding in the ant Proformica longiseta

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Fernández-Escudero ◽  
P. Seppä ◽  
P. Pamilo
Keyword(s):  
Colony Founding ◽  
Proformica Longiseta ◽  
Dependent Colony Founding

scholarly journals The evolution of social parasitism in Formica ants revealed by a global phylogeny

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (38) ◽  
pp. e2026029118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek L. Borowiec ◽  
Stefan P. Cover ◽  
Christian Rabeling
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Social Parasitism ◽  
Colony Founding ◽  
Colony Foundation ◽  
Social Parasites ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Dependent Colony Founding ◽  
High Parasite ◽  
Temporary Social Parasitism

Studying the behavioral and life history transitions from a cooperative, eusocial life history to exploitative social parasitism allows for deciphering the conditions under which changes in behavior and social organization lead to diversification. The Holarctic ant genus Formica is ideally suited for studying the evolution of social parasitism because half of its 172 species are confirmed or suspected social parasites, which includes all three major classes of social parasitism known in ants. However, the life history transitions associated with the evolution of social parasitism in this genus are largely unexplored. To test competing hypotheses regarding the origins and evolution of social parasitism, we reconstructed a global phylogeny of Formica ants. The genus originated in the Old World ∼30 Ma ago and dispersed multiple times to the New World and back. Within Formica, obligate dependent colony-founding behavior arose once from a facultatively polygynous common ancestor practicing independent and facultative dependent colony foundation. Temporary social parasitism likely preceded or arose concurrently with obligate dependent colony founding, and dulotic social parasitism evolved once within the obligate dependent colony-founding clade. Permanent social parasitism evolved twice from temporary social parasitic ancestors that rarely practiced colony budding, demonstrating that obligate social parasitism can originate from a facultative parasitic background in socially polymorphic organisms. In contrast to permanently socially parasitic ants in other genera, the high parasite diversity in Formica likely originated via allopatric speciation, highlighting the diversity of convergent evolutionary trajectories resulting in nearly identical parasitic life history syndromes.

Large-scale population genetics of the mountain ant Proformica longiseta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Sanllorente ◽  
Francisca Ruano ◽  
Alberto Tinaut
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
Proformica Longiseta

Claustral Colony Founding

2008 ◽  
pp. 928-928
Author(s):  
Beata Gabrys ◽  
John L. Capinera ◽  
Jesusa C. Legaspi ◽  
Benjamin C. Legaspi ◽  
Lewis S. Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colony Founding

Cooperative colony founding alters the outcome of interspecific competition between Amazonian plant-ants

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Izzo ◽  
E. M. Bruna ◽  
H. L. Vasconcelos ◽  
B. D. Inouye
Keyword(s):  
Interspecific Competition ◽  
Colony Founding
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