Nestmate recognition in the ant Cataglyphis niger : do queens matter?

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigal Lahav ◽  
Victoria Soroker ◽  
Robert K. Vander Meer ◽  
Abraham Hefetz
Keyword(s):  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Cataglyphis Niger

The Postpharyngeal Gland as a ?Gestalt? Organ for Nestmate Recognition in the Ant Cataglyphis niger

1994 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
pp. 510-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Soroker ◽  
C. Vienne ◽  
A. Hefetz ◽  
E. Nowbahari
Keyword(s):  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Postpharyngeal Gland ◽  
Cataglyphis Niger

scholarly journals Comparative nestmate recognition in Asian honey bees,Apis florea,Apis andreniformis,Apis dorsata, andApis cerana

Apidologie ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Breed ◽  
Xiao-Bao Deng ◽  
Robert Buchwald
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bees ◽  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Apis Florea ◽  
Apis Dorsata ◽  
Apis Andreniformis

Disentangling environmental and heritable nestmate recognition cues in a carpenter ant

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelle S. van Zweden ◽  
Stephanie Dreier ◽  
Patrizia d’Ettorre
Keyword(s):  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Carpenter Ant ◽  
Nestmate Recognition Cues

scholarly journals Use of Flax Oil to Influence Honey Bee Nestmate Recognition

2012 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 1145-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Breed ◽  
Cecily A. Lyon ◽  
Anna Sutherland ◽  
Robert Buchwald
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Flax Oil

Nestmate recognition in a stingless bee: does the similarity of chemical cues determine guard acceptance?

2008 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 1165-1171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tulio M. Nunes ◽  
Fabio S. Nascimento ◽  
Izabel C. Turatti ◽  
Norberto P. Lopes ◽  
Ronaldo Zucchi
Keyword(s):  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Chemical Cues ◽  
Stingless Bee

scholarly journals Nestmate recognition and the genetic relatedness of nests in the ant Formica pratensis

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beye ◽  
P. Neumann ◽  
M. Chapuisat ◽  
P. Pamilo ◽  
R. F. A. Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Genetic Relatedness

scholarly journals Distributed nestmate recognition in ants

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1806) ◽  
pp. 20142838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Esponda ◽  
Deborah M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Distributed System ◽  
Nestmate Recognition ◽  
Cuticular Hydrocarbon ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Distributed Model ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
Chemical Profiles ◽  
The One ◽  
Unique Decision ◽  
Changes Over Time

We propose a distributed model of nestmate recognition, analogous to the one used by the vertebrate immune system, in which colony response results from the diverse reactions of many ants. The model describes how individual behaviour produces colony response to non-nestmates. No single ant knows the odour identity of the colony. Instead, colony identity is defined collectively by all the ants in the colony. Each ant responds to the odour of other ants by reference to its own unique decision boundary, which is a result of its experience of encounters with other ants. Each ant thus recognizes a particular set of chemical profiles as being those of non-nestmates. This model predicts, as experimental results have shown, that the outcome of behavioural assays is likely to be variable, that it depends on the number of ants tested, that response to non-nestmates changes over time and that it changes in response to the experience of individual ants. A distributed system allows a colony to identify non-nestmates without requiring that all individuals have the same complete information and helps to facilitate the tracking of changes in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles, because only a subset of ants must respond to provide an adequate response.

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