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Sex allocation conflict in insect societies: who wins?

Author(s) -

Heikki Helanterä,

Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

biology letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.596

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1744-957X

pISSN - 1744-9561

DOI - 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0501

Subject(s) - eusociality , biology , sex allocation , power (physics) , sexual conflict , queen (butterfly) , resource allocation , hymenoptera , social conflict , sex ratio , ecology , economics , demography , sexual selection , sociology , political science , politics , management , population , law , physics , quantum mechanics

Sex allocation in colonies of eusocial Hymenoptera is one of the best studied social conflicts. We outline a framework for analysing conflict outcome through power and the costs of manipulation and suggest that the conflict will often be unresolved because both major parties of interest, the queen and the workers, should manipulate allocation even at considerable costs to the colony. We suggest future work for analysing power in the conflict between queen and workers over sex allocation and discuss the extent of male power.

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