Levels of selection in a social insect: a review of conflict and cooperation during honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen replacement

By David R. Tarpy, David C Gilley, T. Seeley. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Recognition systems and biological organization: The perception component of social recognition (2004, result): “Yet empirical studies have consistently failed to demonstrate unequivocally differential treatment of larvae or workers based on within-colony differences in relatedness (e.g., Breed et al. 1994, Keller 1997, Strassmann et al. 2000, Tarpy et al. 2004).”
The vibration signal, modulatory communication and the organization of labor in honey bees, Apis mellifera (2004, background): “…instances of queen replacement consist of two distinct phases: (1) ‘queen rearing’, in which VQs are raised in specially constructed queen cells, and (2) ‘queen elimination’, in which the number of VQs remaining in the nest is reduced to one (reviewed in Tarpy et al., 2004; Tarpy and Gilley, 2004).”
Conflict resolution in insect societies. (2006, background): “Possible nepotism in queen rearing has been looked for in the honey bee in all stages of queen rearing, from eggs and larvae (127) to young adult queens (22, 124), and the consensus is that it is weak or nonexistent (19).”