Genetic influence on caste in the ant Camponotus consobrinus

By Vanessa S. Fraser, Bernard E. Kaufmann, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Ross H. Crozier. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Endocrine Control of Insect Polyphenism (2012, background): “Such genetic factors (allelic differences between queens and workers) were originally proposed for the slave-making ant Harpagoxenus sublaevis (Winter and Buschinger, 1986), but have recently also been demonstrated for a Camponotus (Fraser et al., 2000), two Pogonomyrmex species (Julian et al.”
Polyandry in social Hymenoptera — disunity in diversity? (2001, background): “…worker castes (or ‘subcastes’ according to terminological preference), genetical variation in the proportion of these subcastes has been demonstrated between colonies in Pheidole dentata (Johnston & Wilson 1985) and strongly indicated within colonies for Camponotus consobrinus (Fraser et al. 2000).”
Division of labour and worker size polymorphism in ant colonies: the impact of social and genetic factors (2005, background): “A genetic component to worker size was also found in the ants Camponotus consobrinus (Fraser et al. 2000) and Acromyrmex echinatior (Hughes et al. 2003), but not in Formica truncorum (Bargum et al. 2004), possibly because heritability may vary between years and social contexts (Rüppell et al.…”