TY - JOUR
T1 - Worker-queen conflict and the evolution of social insects
AU - Oster, G.
AU - Eshel, I.
AU - Cohen, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Ed Wilson and Dick Lewontin for the hospitality we found in their laboratories and their generosity with their time during our stay at Harvard, where this paper was written. Many other colleagues gave us invaluable suggestions and engaged us in stimulating and productive conversations which aided the paper immeasureably. In this connection, we would especially like to thank Russ Lande, John Seger, Frank Benford, Bob Trivers, Carla Lipow, Sol Rocklin, and Jon Roughgarden. One of us (G.F.O.) would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation (BMS-21240) and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for their financial support during this period.
PY - 1977/8
Y1 - 1977/8
N2 - A general expression for the inclusive fitness of haplodiploids is developed. The optimal investment of colony resources in eusocial Hymenoptera is then derived by maximizing the inclusive fitnesses of workers and queens subject to an ergonomic constraint. Because of assymmetries in the coefficients of relatedness, there is a genotypic "conflict of interest" between the queen and her daughters. We show how the inclusive fitness formula can be used to investigate this situation and to determine who is controlling the colony investment policy. Finally, we show that the optimization of inclusive fitness is consistent with the equilibria of a detailed genetic model.
AB - A general expression for the inclusive fitness of haplodiploids is developed. The optimal investment of colony resources in eusocial Hymenoptera is then derived by maximizing the inclusive fitnesses of workers and queens subject to an ergonomic constraint. Because of assymmetries in the coefficients of relatedness, there is a genotypic "conflict of interest" between the queen and her daughters. We show how the inclusive fitness formula can be used to investigate this situation and to determine who is controlling the colony investment policy. Finally, we show that the optimization of inclusive fitness is consistent with the equilibria of a detailed genetic model.
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U2 - 10.1016/0040-5809(77)90035-1
DO - 10.1016/0040-5809(77)90035-1
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AN - SCOPUS:0017521333
SN - 0040-5809
VL - 12
SP - 49
EP - 85
JO - Theoretical Population Biology
JF - Theoretical Population Biology
IS - 1
ER -