Although most insect colonies are headed by a singly mated queen, some ant, wasp and
bee taxa have evolved high levels of multiple mating or 'polyandry'. We argue here that a …

Army ants are dominant social hunters of invertebrates and thereby play an integral role in
tropical ecosystems. They are defined by a suite of evolutionarily interrelated physiological …

Close relatedness has long been considered crucial to the evolution of eusociality.
However, it has recently been suggested that close relatedness may be a consequence …

The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research.
But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift focus …

Most species of social insects have singly mated queens, but in some species each queen
mates with numerous males to create a colony with a genetically diverse worker force. The …

The generic classification of the ant subfamily Dorylinae is revised, with the aim of facilitating
identification of easily-diagnosable monophyletic genera. The new classification is based on …

Honey bees in the genus Apis share many reproductive features with other social insects,
but have also a number of highly derived mating characteristics, such as obligatory …

Mating rate has important implications for patterns of sexual selection and sexual conflict
and hence for issues such as speciation and the maintenance of genetic diversity …

The concerted evolution of morphological and behavioral specializations has compelling
examples in ant castes. Unique to ants is a marked divergence between winged queens and …

Eusocial living influences mating system evolution if kin selection selects for a low number of
fathers to increase helper relatedness and hel** incentive. Consequently, polyandry …