Digest: Social context underlies subordinate status in a primitively social bee.

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  • Author(s): Roy SW;Roy SW
  • Source:
    Evolution; international journal of organic evolution [Evolution] 2022 Nov; Vol. 76 (11), pp. 2789-2790. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 03.
  • Publication Type:
    News; Comment
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Oxford University Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0373224 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1558-5646 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00143820 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Evolution Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: 2023- : Oxford : Oxford University Press
      Original Publication: Lancaster, Pa. : Society for the Study of Evolution
    • Subject Terms:
      Social Environment* ; Social Dominance*; Bees ; Animals ; Social Behavior
    • Abstract:
      Why it is that some individuals in some species assume lifelong subordinate nonreproductive status has been debated since Darwin. Subordinates may be physically incapable of assuming dominant roles or may not do so in response to specific social contexts. By manipulating social context in the primitively eusocial bee Euglossa dilemma, Saleh and coauthors show that subordinate individuals are capable of adopting many traits of dominant individuals.
      (© 2022 The Authors. Evolution © 2022 The Society for the Study of Evolution.)
    • Comments:
      Comment on: Evolution. 2022 Jul;76(7):1529-1545. (PMID: 35589274)
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    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20220923 Date Completed: 20221125 Latest Revision: 20230120
    • Publication Date:
      20240513
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/evo.14619
    • Accession Number:
      36148957