Queen pheromones, which signal the presence of a fertile queen and induce daughter
workers to remain sterile, are considered to play a key role in regulating the reproductive …

Cheaters—genotypes that gain a selective advantage by taking the benefits of the social
contributions of others while avoiding the costs of cooperating—are thought to pose a major …

Study of social traits in offspring traditionally reflects on interactions in simple family groups,
with famous examples including parent-offspring conflict and sibling rivalry in birds and …

Eusocial insects exhibit a remarkable reproductive division of labor between queens and
largely sterile workers [1, 2]. Recently, it was shown that queens of diverse groups of social …

The reproductive biology of stingless bees is poorly understood, especially when compared
to other groups of social bees with great ecological and economic importance. However …

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 …

The evolution of cooperation in animal and human societies is associated with mechanisms
to suppress individual selfishness. In insect societies, queens and workers enforce …

In the field of social evolution, inclusive fitness theory has been successful in making a wide
range of qualitative predictions on expected patterns of cooperation and conflict …

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 …

Social insect queen pheromones can be interpreted as the queen's means of sterilizing her
workers, or as an honest signal of queen presence that benefits both parties. Co-mapping …