Inquiline social parasites as tools to unlock the secrets of insect sociality

A Cini, S Sumner, R Cervo - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Insect societies play a crucial role in the functioning of most ecosystems and have fascinated
both scientists and the lay public for centuries. Despite the long history of study, we are still …

Differential investment in visual and olfactory brain regions is linked to the sensory needs of a wasp social parasite and its host

AN Rozanski, A Cini, TE Lopreto… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Obligate insect social parasites evolve traits to effectively locate and then exploit their hosts,
whereas hosts have complex social behavioral repertoires, which include sensory …

Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps

T Saga, M Okuno, KJ Loope, K Tsuchida… - Behavioral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Polyandry (multiple mating by females) is a central challenge for understanding the
evolution of eusociality. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain its observed …

Temporal analysis of effective population size and mating system in a social wasp

CJ Dyson, OL Piscano, RM Durham… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Highly social species are successful because they cooperate in obligately integrated
societies. We examined temporal genetic variation in the eusocial wasp Vespula …

Differential investment in visual and olfactory brain regions mirrors the sensory needs of a paper wasp social parasite and its host

AN Rozanski, A Cini, TE Lopreto, KM Gandia… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Obligate social parasites evolve traits to effectively locate and then exploit their hosts,
whereas hosts have complex social behavioral repertoires, which include sensory …

[PDF][PDF] Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps: support for the parasite–pathogen hypothesis

T Saga, M Okuno, KJ Loope, K Tsuchida, K Ohbayashi… - 2019 - academia.edu
Polyandry (multiple mating by females) is a central challenge for understanding the
evolution of eusociality. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain its observed …

Polyandry and Paternity influence disease resistance in a eusocial wasp–support for the pathogen parasite hypothesis

T Saga, M Okuno, KJ Loope, K Tsuchida, K Ohbayashi… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Polyandry (multiple mating by females) is a central challenge for understanding the
evolution of eusociality. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain this observed …