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
核心收录：
学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 081803[工学-地质工程] 08[工学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 0906[农学-兽医学]
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 hydrocarbons.We investigated the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of 2 parapatric sibling ant species,Temnothorax nylanderi(Förster,1850)and Temnothorax crassispinus(Karavaiev,1926),and their hybrid.We found that although the profiles show considerable similarities,a discriminant analysis based on the relative peak areas of cuticular hydrocarbons separates the 3 taxa.The 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.
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