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Dominance hierarchy, skew reproduction and potential fecundity: a test for potential fecundity hypothesis in pleometrotic ant colonies.

2011/01/B/NZ8/05951

Keywords:

dominace hierarchy labour division ant queens pleometrosis social insects

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_3: Animal behaviour
  • NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology
  • NZ8_13: Human biology and ecology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Bartosz Walter 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 1 - announced on 2011-03-15

Amount awarded: 352 500 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2011-12-15

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2015-12-14

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputery (2 szt.) z dyskiem zewnętrzym (1 szt.) (6 000 PLN)
  2. Mikroskopy stereoskopowe (7 500 PLN)
  3. Kamery z osprzętem (5 000 PLN)
  4. Komory klimatyczne (40 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (1)
  1. Queen–worker ratio affects reproductive skew in a socially polymorphic ant
    Authors:
    Bartosz Walter, Jürgen Heinze
    Academic press:
    Ecolgy and Evolution (rok: 2015, tom: 5 (23), strony: 5609-5615), Wydawca: Jon Wiley and Sons Ltd.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/ece3.1779 - link to the publication