Sex recognition does not modulate aggression toward nest intruders in a paper wasp

作     者：Andre Rodrigues de Souza Wilson Franca Amanda Prato Fabio Santos do Nascimento 

作者机构：Departamento de BiologiaFaculdade de Filosofia Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao PretoUniversidade de Sao PauloSao PauloBrazil 

出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第69卷第3期

页      面：324-331页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：This study was supported by Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior--Brasil(CAPES)--Finance Code 001(to A.R.S.),Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico(proccess:142285/2018-8 to A.P.) Fundagao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo(FAPESP)(proccess:2020/14464-2 to A.R.S.,2019/08029-4 to W.F.,2018/10996-0 to F.N.) 

主　　题：chemical cues Mischocyttarus sex discrimination social interactions social wasps visual cues 

摘      要：During social interactions,the behavior of an individual often depends on the sex of its social *** animal societies have males and females that play very different behavioral roles,although they coexist and interact *** specific phases of the colony cycle,social wasp females and males are contemporaries within a nest,they often interact,although mating occurs mostly off the nest,therefore providing an opportunity to test sex discrimination in contexts other than classical sexual *** performed a lure presentation experiment to test if Mischocyttarus metathoracicus discriminate between conspecifics of the 2 sexes during on-nest social *** wasps discriminated conspecific sex during experimentally simulated nest *** and chemical cues may account for this sex *** sex discrimination(evidenced by differential inspective behavior from the nest females toward the female and the male lures),female wasps were as aggressive toward lures of both *** the female-dominated hymenopteran societies,males are often subordinate and not aggressive on nest,resulting in females directing less aggression to them compared to other ***,*** males and females are both aggressive toward nestmates,so they might be perceived as similar threat during on-nest social interactions.