PMID: 11607424Sep 15, 1993Paper

Fighting for a harem of queens: physiology of reproduction in Cardiocondyla male ants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jürgen Heinze, Bert Hölldobler

Abstract

Several species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla produce dimorphic males, which exhibit sharply different mating strategies. Winged males typically disperse to mate outside the nest, whereas wingless, ergatoid males stay in the nest and aggressively employ their mandibles against competing ergatoid males to monopolize the virgin queens eclosing in the nest. Such aggressive mating strategy would only be adaptive if the males had unlimited sperm supply. Histological studies showed that, contrary to the rule in the Hymenoptera order, the ergatoid Cardiocondyla males are indeed able to produce sperm during their entire adult life. Winged males, on the other hand, have only a limited sperm supply since spermatogenesis ceases in the late pupal stage.

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Oct 17, 2008·Die Naturwissenschaften·Sabine Frohschammer, Jürgen Heinze
Jun 1, 2005·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·Jürgen HeinzeKatsusuke Yamauchi
Jan 23, 2013·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Jacobus J Boomsma
Dec 9, 2000·Annual Review of Entomology·M AyasseJ Tengö
Apr 12, 2005·Annual Review of Entomology·Jacobus J BoomsmaJürgen Heinze
Jul 12, 2007·BMC Evolutionary Biology·Alexandra SchrempfJürgen Heinze
Jun 19, 2012·BMC Ecology·Sylvia CremerJürgen Heinze
Oct 5, 2014·Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews·Laura BeaniAmy Toth
Feb 20, 2007·Journal of Evolutionary Biology·A Schrempf, J Heinze
Jul 30, 2010·Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution· Jan Oettler Jürgen Heinz
Sep 6, 2015·Molecular Biology and Evolution·Katharina von WyschetzkiJürgen Heinze
Dec 19, 2006·Current Biology : CB·Katsusuke YamauchiJürgen Heinze
Dec 19, 2006·Current Biology : CB·Joan E Strassmann
Aug 24, 2007·Current Biology : CB·Jacobus J Boomsma
Oct 14, 2014·Journal of Insect Physiology·Marion FuesslAlexandra Schrempf
Oct 11, 2016·Current Opinion in Insect Science·Jürgen Heinze
Oct 11, 2016·Current Opinion in Insect Science·Jan Oettler, Alexandra Schrempf
Feb 9, 2016·Integrative Zoology·Alexandra SchrempfJürgen Heinze
May 23, 2014·Nature Communications·Nicolas TerraponJürgen Liebig
Jun 21, 2018·Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Kristiina J Hurme
Mar 28, 2008·Gerontology·Jürgen Heinze, Alexandra Schrempf
Mar 17, 2017·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Jürgen Heinze
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