Cuticular hydrocarbons in two parapatric species of ants and their hybrid
作者机构:Biologie IUniversity of RegensburgRegensburgGermany Department of EntomologyAin Shams UniversityCairoEgypt
出 版 物:《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学(英文版))
年 卷 期:2011年第6卷第3期
页 面:259-265页
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学科分类:081803[工学-地质工程] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程]
基 金:This project was carried out with permission from Al-Azhar University Cairo and the Ministry of High Educa-tion of the Arab Republic of Egypt and supported by funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
主 题:colony odor cuticular hydrocarbons hybridization Temnothorax
摘 要:Discrimination between nestmates and non-nestmates in social insects is thought to rely on the pattern of cuticular *** investigated the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of 2 parapatric sibling ant species,Temnothorax nylanderi(Förster,1850)and Temnothorax crassispinus(Karavaiev,1926),and their *** found that although the profiles show considerable similarities,a discriminant analysis based on the relative peak areas of cuticular hydrocarbons separates the 3 *** profiles of hybrids were not consistently intermediate between those of the paternal species,suggesting either non-additive interactions among the parental biosynthetic pathways or systematic differ-ences in environment-derived odor cues.