The role of juvenile hormone in regulating reproductive physiology and dominance in Dinoponera quadriceps ants.

ABSTRACT: Unequal reproductive output among members of the same sex (reproductive skew) is a common phenomenon in a wide range of communally breeding animals. In such species, reproductive dominance is often acquired during antagonistic interactions between group members that establish a reproductive hierarchy in which only a few individuals reproduce. Rank-specific syndromes of behavioural and physiological traits characterize such hierarchies, but how antagonistic behavioural interactions translate into stable rank-specific syndromes remains poorly understood. The pleiotropic nature of hormones makes them prime candidates for generating such syndromes as they physiologically integrate environmental (social) information, and often affect reproduction and behaviour simultaneously. Juvenile hormone (

SUBMITTER: Norman VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398374 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature