Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees.
Journal
Current opinion in insect science
ISSN: 2214-5753
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Insect Sci
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101635599
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2023
08 2023
Historique:
received:
06
12
2022
revised:
12
04
2023
accepted:
02
05
2023
medline:
23
10
2023
pubmed:
26
5
2023
entrez:
25
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Stingless bees are a diverse and ecologically important group of pollinators in the tropics. Division of labour allows bee colonies to meet the various demands of their social life, but has been studied in only ∼3% of all described stingless bee species. The available data suggest that division of labour shows both parallels and striking differences compared with other social bees. Worker age is a reliable predictor of worker behaviour in many species, while morphological variation in body size or differences in brain structure are important for specific worker tasks in some species. Stingless bees provide opportunities to confirm general patterns of division of labour, but they also offer prospects to discover and study novel mechanisms underlying the different lifestyles found in eusocial bees.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37230412
pii: S2214-5745(23)00054-8
doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101057
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101057Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.