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  • Apis mellifera  (1)
  • Evolutionarily stable strategy  (1)
  • 1995-1999
  • 1985-1989  (2)
  • 1980-1984
  • 1950-1954
  • 1945-1949
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  • 1995-1999
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  • 1980-1984
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  • 1
    ISSN: 1573-8477
    Keywords: Evolutionarily stable strategy ; risk-spreading ; dispersal behavior ; flight muscle histolysis ; waterstrider
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Evolutionary stable dispersal and wing muscle histolysis strategies are studied in the waterstriderGerris thoracicus. These strategies relate to spreading reproductive risk. Overwintering individuals have the choice of dispersing to either a brackish sea bay or a rock pool habitat. The former is reproductively more favorable than the latter during warm dry years and less favorable during cool wet years. After spring migration, individuals may histolyse their flight muscles and lay all their eggs in one pool or they may retain their flight ability and lay fewer eggs in total but spread them in several pools. We use a simple two-habitat model to examine the question of habitat dispersal. Our results indicate that, although the value of the evolutionary stable dispersal depends on the degree of variability in the environment and on the probability of local extinctions in either habitat, the population always disperses to both habitats as a consequence of density dependent growth. We use a more detailed multiple-rockpool habitat model to examine the question of wing muscle histolysis as a response to density dependence. Our results indicate that a wing muscle histolysis response to population density is an evolutionarily stable strategy when compared with the two alternatives of females always histolysing or never histolysing their flight muscles. The application of evolutionarily stable theory to stochastic problems presents a number of difficulties. We discuss these difficulties in the context of computing evolutionarily stable strategies for the problems at hand.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Chemosensory cues ; olfaction ; kin recognition ; honeybees ; Apis mellifera ; Hymenoptera ; Apidae ; differential conditioning ; proboscis extension reflex ; learning
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Differential training of honeybee workers using the proboscis extension reflex is applied to the problem of evaluating compounds that may potentially provide cues for kin recognition in the honeybeeApis mellifera. These cues were obtained by contaminating glass rods and steel needles with different materials found in the hive. In particular it is shown that workers discriminate between: cuticular waxes from different adult workers; eggs from the same and different hives; similar aged larvae within the same hive; and needles contaminated with the Nasonov gland secretions of different adult workers. It appears that some of these differences are due to phenotypic variation among individuals that cannot be directly attributed to environmental factors.
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