The rarity of multiple mating by females in the social Hymenoptera

By J. Strassmann. Insectes Sociaux, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Sampling Error, Effective Paternity, and Estimating the Genetic Structure of Honey Bee Colonies (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2002, background): “One issue that has confronted kinship theory is theexistenceofpolyandryamong the social Hymenoptera (Page 1986, Strassmann 2001).”
Genital damage in the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae) increases paternity success (2007, background): “Indeed, several studies on different insect taxa suggest that males can successfully protect their sperm against future rivals by blocking female insemination ducts with their own genitalia (Monnin and Peeters 1998; Strassmann 2001; Kamimura 2003).”
Conflict resolution in insect societies. (2006, background): “Hymenopteran colonies headed by a single queen mated to a single male (12, 115) or termite colonies headed by a single royal pair have no potential conflict over queen rearing.”
The Physiological and Genomic Bases of Bumble Bee Social Behaviour (2015, background): “Indeed, although some bumble bee species are multiply mated, the effective mating number in bumble bees is close to one (Strassmann, 2001), suggesting post-mating mechanisms by which the sperm of one male is favoured.”
Pathogen-associated self-medication behavior in the honeybee Apis mellifera (2014, background): “Because of the multiple mating of the queens (Strassmann 2001), this precaution nevertheless generated genetic variance among the workers that we did not control for.”
Bumblebees as model organisms to study male sexual selection in social insects (2003, background): “Since the majority of social insects seem to have average female-mating frequencies close to 1 (Boomsma and Ratnieks 1996; Strassmann 2001), stored sperm often belongs to a single clonal ejaculate so that no sperm competition is expected.”
Vespa velutina: a new invasive predator of honeybees in Europe (2013, background): “Monandry is the most common mating system in eusocial Hymenopterans (Strassmann 2001), but previous research reported Vespa queens inseminated by multiple males in at least three species (V.”
A scientific note on the revised estimates of effective paternity frequency in Apis (2004, background): “At issue are factors that impact social insect ecology and evolution, such as worker policing, division of labor, and cooperative behavior (reviewed by Strassmann, 2001 ), as well as more proximate subjects such as skews in paternity, mating success, and reproductive tactics.”
Polyandry in social Hymenoptera — disunity in diversity? (2001, background): “With respect to comparisons with other groups, such as vertebrates, social Hymenoptera present special features such as the sex locus, the extreme ability and need to store sperm for long periods, and colonies with polyethism, lack others such as repeated mating following the birth of offspring, and”