Gadagkar, R (2022) More Fun Than Fun: The Wasp Who Would Be Queen. In: The Wire .
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Abstract
A question of obvious interest to all evolutionary biologists is who in a colony of wasps gets to be the queen and who serves as a worker. Among highly eusocial species, when an individual is born as an adult, its role is already decided and irreversibly fixed. Among primitively eusocial species, all adults are born equal and social interactions during the adult stage decide who becomes the queen and who a worker. One consequence of all adults being born nearly equal is that queens can be overthrown and some of the workers can become new queens. Among the many aspects of the lives of the wasps that the author and his colleagues have studied, perhaps the most intriguing is the phenomenon of queen succession.
| Item Type: | Editorials/Short Communications |
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| Publication: | The Wire |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2022 14:29 |
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2022 14:29 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/71675 |
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