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Foundress number in Local ecological factors, not interference competition, drive the foundress number of two species of fig wasp sharing Ficus septica figs
<p><span>Recent studies have challenged assumptions about the classic fig-fig wasp pollination mutualism model, suggesting that further investigation into the receptive phase of fig development is needed. This study assessed the pollination mechanisms of <em>Ficus septica</em> in southern Taiwan and identified two species of wasps as the primary pollinators. Machine learning was used to identify and rank the factors that explain the relative abundance of these wasps. The two wasp species showed the highest level of cohabitation ever reported in the literature, with three-quarters of the figs containing multiple foundresses. The study also reported re-emerged foundresses and a 10% ratio of pollinated figs without foundresses. Local factors, such as the sampling period and tree identity, were the best predictors of the presence and number of each foundress species, with fig size also affecting the number of foundresses. The study highlights the variability in pollinator abundance between figs, crops, and trees. It also shows that the local environment of the trees and the availability of figs are crucial factors in determining which figs the pollinator wasps choose. These findings challenge assumptions about the classic mutualism model and suggest that long-term surveys are needed to estimate the relative contributions of each partner and provide data for evolutionary and ecological models. This study also provides valuable insights into the factors that affect the abundance and interactions of pollinator wasps during the receptive phase of fig development, with implications for understanding the behaviour of pollinating wasps and advancing our knowledge of population dynamics in <em>Ficus </em>species.</span></p>
Foundress number in local ecological factors, not interference competition, drive the foundress number of two species of fig wasp sharing Ficus septica figs
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Data from: The extension of foundress lifespan and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera
<p>The evolution of effectively sterile workers in the aculeate Hymenoptera (ants, bees and stinging wasps) requires that a female's lifespan largely overlap that of her daughters. The evolution of long nest foundress lifespans in eusocial species from the short lifespans of solitary species is investigated. Analyses that control for phylogeny show for the first time that foundress adult lifespan increases, and first-brood offspring development time decreases, with increasing colony size, resulting in the ratio of foundress adult lifespan to worker total lifespan increasing with increasing colony size. These patterns support the hypothesis that the reproductive division of labour increases with increasing colony size, explaining the evolution of effectively sterile workers in species with large colonies. However, there is a discrete increase in foundress adult lifespan in the transition from non-eusociality to eusociality that is independent of colony size. An analysis of life history characters suggests that this increase is explained by nests being founded by multiple females and progressive feeding of larvae as they develop. A reduced rate of senescence of a dominant co-foundress may be selected as a plastic response to social status if high-risk tasks performed by subordinate co-foundresses reduce the dominant's extrinsic mortality rate. Multiple-foundress nests in which one female is responsible for most or all the reproduction (semisociality) and in which foundresses are full sisters are favoured by haplodiploidy, perhaps explaining why eusociality is so common in the Hymenoptera. </p>
Data from: The extension of foundress lifespan and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera
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Data from: Co-foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub-social parasitoid
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