Polistes are an ideal system to study ultimate and proximate questions of dominance, and to
test theoretical predictions about social evolution. The behaviors typically associated with …

Individuals of gregarious species often group with conspecifics to which they are
phenotypically similar. This among-group assortment has been studied for body size, sex …

Nestmate recognition, ie, the ability to discriminate nestmates from foreign individuals, is a
crucial feature of insect societies, and it has been traditionally considered to be …

Much research on animal communication has addressed how costs such as social costs or
physiological costs favor the accuracy of signals. Previous work has largely considered …

Social recognition, ie the ability to recognize and assign individual membership to a
particular and relevant class, such as caste, dominance status, gender or colony, shapes the …

Social insects have evolved sophisticated recognition systems enabling them to accept nest-
mates but reject alien conspecifics. In the social wasp, Liostenogaster flavolineata …

Wasps encompass solitary, communal, and facultative, obligate, and swarm-founding social
species and are important model organisms for study of the origin and elaboration of insect …

Social insect reproductives and non‐reproductives represent ideal models with which to
understand the expression and regulation of alternative phenotypes. Most research in this …

When foraging in their natural environment, many animals readily complement their
personal knowledge with additional social information. To balance the costs and benefits of …

Differences in male and female phenotypes are often the results of sexual selection. Over
the years, a vast number of studies investigated how and why the 2 sexes differ in their …