Evolution of worker policing

Olejarz, Jason W and Allen, Benjamin and Veller, Carl and Gadagkar, Raghavendra and Nowak, Martin A (2016) Evolution of worker policing. In: JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 399 . pp. 103-116.

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Abstract

Workers in insect societies are sometimes observed to kill male eggs of other workers, a phenomenon known as worker policing. We perform a mathematical analysis of the evolutionary dynamics of policing. We investigate the selective forces behind policing for both dominant and recessive mutations for different numbers of matings of the queen. The traditional, relatedness-based argument suggests that policing evolves if the queen mates with more than two males, but does not evolve if the queen mates with a single male. We derive precise conditions for the invasion and stability of policing alleles. We find that the relatedness-based argument is not robust with respect to small changes in colony efficiency caused by policing. We also calculate evolutionarily singular strategies and determine when they are evolutionarily stable. We use a population genetics approach that applies to dominant or recessive mutations of any effect size. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
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Keywords:	Sociobiology; Natural selection; Evolutionary dynamics; Models/simulations
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Contemporary Studies
Date Deposited:	30 Jun 2016 04:47
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2016 04:47
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/54079

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