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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Paper wasps"”.
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Comparative Physiological and Genomic Analyses of Division of Labor in Honey Bees and Paper Wasps
… insect with independently evolved sociality, the paper wasp Polistes metricus. I also found low abdominal lipid in P. metricus foragers. I then developed an EST project of sequences representing approximately 5000 P. metricus genes. I examined the expression of a set of 32 P. metricus orthologs to …
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After all, what do wasps want? The choice of sexual partner in the paper wasps Polistes
… of recessive deleterious alleles. Social paper wasps like Polistes fit this situation, but surprisingly little is known about how sexual selection operates in this taxon. Here, we examine proximal and ultimate causes involved in the choice of sexual partner in Polistes paper wasps. We …
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Nutritional status influences behavior, physiology, and brain gene expression in primitively eusocial Polistes metricus paper wasps
… eusocial insects such as Polistes metricus paper wasp. This is an interesting consideration because if the related behaviors displayed by these two independently evolved social insects are mediated by similar pathways, it may give more insight into the evolution of eusociality. We tested the …
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Acquisition and Retention of Bacterial Spores (Bacillus Atrophaeus) by Eight Insect Species
… yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor L.), common paper wasps (Polistes exclamans exclamans Viereck), red paper wasps (Polistes Carolina L.), red harvester ant (Pogonymyrmex barbatus Smith). Individual insects were offered BG-treated food and sacrificed at specified time intervals following one, …
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Population Genomics of Polistes Wasps
… genomic data set for primitively eusocial paper wasps in the genus Polistes. The third chapter of the thesis uses the dataset generated in chapter two to estimate patterns of natural selection on the Polistes genome, and to evaluate the importance of novel and caste biased genes on the …
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Interakcje gospodarz – parazytoid na przykładzie Polistes nimpha (Christ, 1791) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) i Latibulus argiolus (Rossi, 1790) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
Praca dotyczy interakcji gatunku osy Polistes nimpha będącej gospodarzem parazytoida Latibulus argiolus. Badania prowadzono w latach 2012 – 2014, w okolicach Suchego Lasu, wykorzystując metodę cotygodniowych inwentaryzacji gniazd os oraz nagrywania zachowań klecanek oraz parazytoidów za pomocą …
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The endocrinology and evolution of tropical social wasps: from casteless groups to high societies
… and behavior of three social vespid wasps was studied in northeast Brazil (São Cristóvão, Sergipe) from 2010-2011. There were two main objectives of this work: to test a hypothesis on the origin of reproductive castes (i.e. queen and worker phenotypes) in a communal species (Zethus …