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Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

机译:社会昆虫中殖民生活的能量基础

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Understanding the ecology and evolution of insect societies requires greater knowledge of how sociality affects the performance of whole colonies. Metabolic scaling theory, based largely on the body mass scaling of metabolic rate, has successfully predicted many aspects of the physiology and life history of individual (or unitary) organisms. Here we show, using a diverse set of social insect species, that this same theory predicts the size dependence of basic features of the physiology (i.e., metabolic rate, reproductive allocation) and life history (i.e., survival, growth, and reproduction) of whole colonies. The similarity in the size dependence of these features in unitary organisms and whole colonies points to commonalities in functional organization. Thus, it raises an important question of how such evolutionary convergence could arise through the process of natural selection.
机译:了解昆虫社会的生态和进化需要对社会如何影响整个殖民地的表现有更多的了解。代谢缩放理论主要基于代谢率的体重缩放,已成功预测了单个(或单一)生物的生理学和生命史的许多方面。在这里,我们展示了使用各种各样的社会昆虫物种,该相同理论可以预测昆虫的生理学基本特征(即代谢率,生殖分配)和生活史(即生存,生长和繁殖)的大小依赖性。整个殖民地。这些特征在单一生物体和整个菌落中大小依赖性的相似性表明功能组织的共同点。因此,它提出了一个重要的问题,即如何通过自然选择过程实现这种进化趋同。

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