Our understanding of chemical communication between social insect queens and workers
has advanced rapidly in recent years. Several studies have identified chemicals produced …

An ant colony is the epitome of social organization where up to millions of individuals
cooperate to survive, compete, and reproduce as a single superorganism, Female members …

Social insects are known for their reproductive division of labor between queens and
workers, whereby queens lay the majority of the colony's eggs, and workers engage mostly …

Queen pheromones, which signal the presence of a fertile queen and induce workers to
remain sterile, play a key role in regulating reproductive division of labour in insect societies …

In several highly eusocial insect species with morphologically distinct castes, queen-
characteristic cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) have been shown to act as queen signals that …

Social insects demonstrate adaptive behaviour for a given colony size. Remarkably, most
species do this even without visual information in a dark environment. However, how they …

The evolutionary origin of queen pheromones (QPs), which regulate reproductive division of
labor in insect societies, has been explained by two evolutionary scenarios: the sender …

Royal recognition is a central feature of insect societies, allowing them to maintain the
reproductive division of labor and regulate colony demography. Queen recognition has …

In eusocial insects, the high cost of altruistic cooperation between colony members has
favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit social services of other species. In the most …

Social insect colonies are organized by a reproductive division of labor, in which non-
reproductive workers cooperate to rear the offspring of the queen. Queen pheromones …