caa a22 4500 465788939 CHVBK 20180323112017.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01052114 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01052114 Crosland Michael School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1, 2033, Kensington, N.S.W., Australia aut Variation in ant aggression and kin discrimination ability within and between colonies [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Crosland] Significant variation in aggressiveness and kin discrimination ability occurs between different laboratory colonies of the ant Rhytidoponera confusa.Different colonies show consistently high (or low) levels of aggression toward nonnestmates over 4-19 weeks. Earlier studies excluded colony size and the natural presence or absence of the queen in colonies and differences in hunger as possible sources of variation. The present study excluded the number of larvae in colonies and the time of the light period of the light cycle when recognition tests were carried out. Highly significant variation occurs between the kin discrimination ability of individual workers in any particular colony. Approximately 28% of the workers in colonies of R. confusashowed very poor kin discrimination. Much of the colony's kin discrimination is carried out by a small number of highly aggressive workers. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1990 ant nationallicence aggression nationallicence kin discrimination nationallicence Rhytidoponera confusa nationallicence Hymenoptera nationallicence Formicidae nationallicence Journal of Insect Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 3/3(1990-05-01), 359-379 0892-7553 3:3<359 1990 3 10905 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052114 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052114 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Crosland Michael School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1, 2033, Kensington, N.S.W., Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Insect Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 3/3(1990-05-01), 359-379 0892-7553 3:3<359 1990 3 10905 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer