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Interrogating an insect society

机译：审讯昆虫学会

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Insect societies such as those of ants, bees, and wasps consist of 1 or a small number of fertile queens and a large number of sterile or nearly sterile workers. While the queens engage in laying eggs, workers perform all other tasks such as nest building, acquisition and processing of food, and brood care. How do such societies function in a coordinated and efficient manner? What are the rules that individuals follow? How are these rules made and enforced? These questions are of obvious interest to us as fellow social animals but how do we interrogate an insect society and seek answers to these questions? In this article I will describe my research that was designed to seek answers from an insect society to a series of questions of obvious interest to us. I have chosen the Indian paper wasp Ropalidia mar-ginata for this purpose, a species that is abundantly distributed in peninsular India and serves as an excellent model system. An important feature of this species is that queens and workers are morphologically identical and physiologically nearly so. How then does an individual become a queen? How does the queen suppress worker reproduction? How does the queen regulate the nonreproductive activities of the workers? What is the function of aggression shown by different individuals? How and when is the queen's heir decided? I will show how such questions can indeed be investigated and will emphasize the need for a whole range of different techniques of observation and experimentation.
机译：诸如蚂蚁，蜜蜂和黄蜂这样的昆虫社会由1个或少量可育女王/王后以及大量不育或几乎不育的工人组成。皇后从事产卵时，工人们执行所有其他任务，例如筑巢，获取和加工食物以及育雏。这样的社会如何以协调和有效的方式运作？个人遵循哪些规则？这些规则是如何制定和执行的？这些问题作为我们的社交动物对我们很有意义，但是我们如何审讯昆虫社会并寻求这些问题的答案？在本文中，我将描述我的研究，该研究旨在寻求昆虫学会对我们明显感兴趣的一系列问题的答案。为此，我选择了印度黄蜂“ Ropalidia mar-ginata”，该物种在印度半岛上分布广泛，是一个很好的模型系统。该物种的一个重要特征是皇后和工人在形态上是相同的，在生理上几乎是相同的。那么一个人如何成为女王？女王如何抑制工人的生育？王后如何规范工人的非生殖活动？不同个人表现出的侵略功能是什么？女王的继承人如何以及何时决定？我将展示如何确实调查这些问题，并强调需要使用各种不同的观察和实验技术。

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