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U 2 I 0 E 0 I 2 S ACTES DES COLLOQUES INSECTES SOCIAUX Edité par l'Union Internationale pour l’Etude des Insectes Sociaux - Section française (sous la direction de François-Xavier DECHAUME MONCHARMONT et Minh-Hà PHAM-DELEGUE) VOL. 15 (2002) – COMPTE RENDU DU COLLOQUE ANNUEL 50e anniversaire - Versailles - 16-18 septembre 2002 ACTES DES COLLOQUES INSECTES SOCIAUX Edité par l'Union Internationale pour l’Etude des Insectes Sociaux - Section française (sous la direction de François-Xavier DECHAUME MONCHARMONT et Minh-Hà PHAM-DELEGUE) VOL. 15 (2002) – COMPTE RENDU DU COLLOQUE ANNUEL 50e anniversaire - Versailles - 16-18 septembre 2002 ISSN n° 0265-0076 ISBN n° 2-905272-14-7 Composé au Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Comparée des Invertébrés (INRA, Bures-sur-Yvette) Publié on-line sur le site des Insectes Sociaux : : http://www.univ-tours.fr/desco/UIEIS/UIEIS.htm Comité Scientifique : Martin GIURFA Université Toulouse Alain LENOIR Université Tours Christian PEETERS CNRS Paris 6 Minh-Hà PHAM-DELEGUE INRA Bures Comité d'Organisation : Evelyne GENECQUE F.X. DECHAUME MONCHARMONT Et toute l’équipe du LNCI (INRA Bures) Nous remercions sincèrement l’INRA et l’établissement THOMAS qui ont soutenu financièrement cette manifestation. Crédits Photographiques Couverture : 1. Abeille : Serge CARRE (INRA) 2. Fourmis : Photothèque CNRS 3. Termite : Alain ROBERT (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon) UIEIS Versailles Page 1 Programme UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR L’ETUDE DES INSECTES SOCIAUX UIEIS Section Française - 50ème Anniversaire Versailles 16-18 Septembre 2002 PROGRAMME Lundi 16 septembre 9 h ACCUEIL DES PARTICIPANTS - CAFE 10 h Présentation du Centre INRA de Versailles – Président du Centre Session Plasticité et Socialité- Modérateur Martin Giurfa 10 h 15 - Conférence Watching the bee brain when it learns – Randolf Menzel (Université Libre de Berlin) 11 h 15 Calcium responses to queen pheromones, social pheromones and plant odours in the antennal lobe of the honey bee drone Apis mellifera L. - Jean-Christophe Sandoz p.7 11 h 30 Apprentissage des odeurs par l’abeille : facteurs de variabilité des performances individuelles au cours d’un conditionnement associatif - David Laloi, M.-H. Pham-Delègue p.9 11 h 45 Variabilité du comportement de recrutement par les danses chez l'abeille Apis mellifera – François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, O. Pons, M.-H. Pham-Delègue p.13 12 h Caractérisation de l’effet inhibiteur des butineuses sur le développement comportemental des jeunes ouvrières d’une colonie d’abeilles, Apis mellifera L. - Isabelle Leoncini, G. Costagliola, J.M. Becard, Y. Le Conte, G.E. Robinson p.15 12 h 15 Le conditionnement spatial chez la fourmi Myrmica sabuleti – Marie-Claire Cammaerts p.19 12 h 30- 12 h 45 Facteurs influençant le choix de la stratégie prédatrice chez la fourmi Gnamptogenys sulcata (Ponerinae : Ectatommini) - Sébastien Daly-Schveitzer, G. Beugnon, J.-P. Lachaud p.23 13 h 30 DEJEUNER ET CAFE Session Plasticité et Socialité- Modérateur Christian Peeters 14 h 30 – Conférence Aggrégation : une étape vers d’autres coopérations – Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Université Libre de Bruxelles) 15 h 30 Régulation du nombre d’individus participant à la capture et au transport collectif de proies chez une araignée sociale, Anelosimus eximius : importance des caractéristiques de la proie - Guillaume Vakanas p.27 1 UIEIS Versailles Page 2 Programme 15 h 45 Absence de mutilation chez une population indienne de Diacamma : le monopole de la gamergate est-il remis en cause ? – Laurent Cournault, C. Peeters p.31 16 h Resolving reproductive conflicts in ants – Bruno Gobin p.32 16 h 15 Min i-sociétés sans reine chez le genre Néotropical Thaumatomyrmex Mayr, 1887 (Formicidae : Ponerinae) - Benoît Jahyny, J. Delabie, D. Fresneau p.33 16 h 30 Remplacement de la gamergate chez la fourmi sans reine Dinoponera quadriceps : une contre toutes, et presque toutes pour une - Thibaud Monnin, F. L.W. Ratnieks, G. R. Jones, R. Beard p.37 16 h 45 Worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa - Patrizia D’Ettorre, J. Heinze, F. Ratnieks p.38 17 h To linger or leave: Does cuticular chemistry, dealation propensity and size matter for new Formica truncorum gynes? – Christine A. Johnson, L. Sundström p.39 17 h 15 Rôle des mâles dans la reproduction chez Cardiocondyla elegans (Formicidae : Myrmicinae) - Jean-Luc Mercier, C. Jérôme, E. Darrouzet, S. Stoeckel. p.40 17 h 30 Hiérarchie et régulation de la reproduction chez une fourmi Ponerinae à reine peu différenciée : Platythyrea conradti - Mathieu Molet, Kolo Yéo, C. Peeters p.44 17 h 45 Structure socio-génétique des sociétés et des populations de Cataglyphis cursor (Formicidae) - Morgan Pearcy, C. Doums, S. Aron p.45 18 h -18 h 15 Régulation de l’accès à la reproduction : apparition du signal de dominance chez la fourmi sans reine Streblognathus.- Valérie Renault, V. Cuvillier, C. Peeters p.48 Mardi 17 septembre Session Coévolution - Modératrice Corinne Rouland-Lefèvre 9 h 15 - Conférence Host-symbiont conflicts in fungus-growing social insects – Jacobus J. Boomsma (Université de Copenhague) 10 h 15 La miniaturisation : une stratégie simple des parasites pour tromper leurs hôtes ? une analyse du sex-ratio en cytométrie de flux. - Serge Aron p.49 10 h 30 L’action des fourmis sur un mutualisme figuiers/pollinisateurs - Bertrand Schatz, M. Hossaert-McKey p.53 10 h 45 PAUSE CAFÉ 2 UIEIS Versailles Page 3 Programme 11 h 15 Le syndrome de polydomie chez Cataulacus mckeyi, une fourmi à plante - Gabriel Debout, B. Schatz, E. Provost, M. Renucci, A. Tirard, D. McKey p.58 11 h 30 Modifications des communautés fongiques du sol sous l’action de plusieurs espèces de termites Macrotermitinae - Michel Diouf, A. Brauman, C. Rouland-Lefèvre p.63 11 h 45 Influence de Crematogaster scutellaris (Hymenoptera : Myrmicinae) sur deux communautés de fourmis – Jean-François Marlier, B. Schatz, J.C. de Biseau p.68 12 h Capacites digestives des fourmis champignonnistes et contribution du champignon dans la degradation du materiel vegetal – Freddie-Jeanne Richard, C. Rouland, C. Errard p.73 12 h 15 - Film Menaces sur le Maculinea, la biologie de la conservation appliquée aux zones humides – Alain Rojo de la Paz 12 h 30 CONSEIL DE L’UIEIS 13 h 30 DEJEUNER ET CAFE Session Libre - Modérateur Alain Lenoir (Université Tours) 14 h 30 Métamorphose du profil d’hydrocarbures cuticulaires lors de l’activation ovarienne chez la fourmi Linepithema humile – Jean-Christophe de Biseau, L. Passera, D. Daloze, S. Aron p.78 14 h 45 Discrimination intra- et interspécifique chez la fourmi vagabonde Wasmannia auropunctata - Christine Errard, H. Jourdan, C. Glaude, J. Delabie, A. Hefetz p.82 15 h Inhibition royale de la ponte des ouvrières chez Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera : Apidae, Bombinae) - Cédric Alaux, P. Jaisson, A. Hefetz p.90 15 h 15 Identification d’un signal de fertilité cuticulaire chez Diacamma ceylonense, une fourmi sans reine – Sébastien Baratte, C. Peeters, M. Cobb p.96 15 h 30 Spécificité des pistes de récolte de nourriture chez les termites : le cas de Macrotermes annandalei et de M. barneyi - Mathieu Bourillot, A. Robert, E. Semon, C. Bordereau p.98 15 h 45 Utilisation de marqueurs chimiques et moléculaires : l’étude des colonies parisiennes du termite Reticulitermes santonensis - Stéphanie Dronnet, P. Uva, J.-P. Christides, A.-G. Bagnères p.103 16 h Reconnaissance coloniale chez des fourmis se reproduisant par bouturage - Katsuya Ichinose, A. Lenoir, X. 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  • The Functions and Evolution of Social Fluid Exchange in Ant Colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Marie-Pierre Meurville & Adria C

    The Functions and Evolution of Social Fluid Exchange in Ant Colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Marie-Pierre Meurville & Adria C

    ISSN 1997-3500 Myrmecological News myrmecologicalnews.org Myrmecol. News 31: 1-30 doi: 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:001 13 January 2021 Review Article Trophallaxis: the functions and evolution of social fluid exchange in ant colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Marie-Pierre Meurville & Adria C. LeBoeuf Abstract Trophallaxis is a complex social fluid exchange emblematic of social insects and of ants in particular. Trophallaxis behaviors are present in approximately half of all ant genera, distributed over 11 subfamilies. Across biological life, intra- and inter-species exchanged fluids tend to occur in only the most fitness-relevant behavioral contexts, typically transmitting endogenously produced molecules adapted to exert influence on the receiver’s physiology or behavior. Despite this, many aspects of trophallaxis remain poorly understood, such as the prevalence of the different forms of trophallaxis, the components transmitted, their roles in colony physiology and how these behaviors have evolved. With this review, we define the forms of trophallaxis observed in ants and bring together current knowledge on the mechanics of trophallaxis, the contents of the fluids transmitted, the contexts in which trophallaxis occurs and the roles these behaviors play in colony life. We identify six contexts where trophallaxis occurs: nourishment, short- and long-term decision making, immune defense, social maintenance, aggression, and inoculation and maintenance of the gut microbiota. Though many ideas have been put forth on the evolution of trophallaxis, our analyses support the idea that stomodeal trophallaxis has become a fixed aspect of colony life primarily in species that drink liquid food and, further, that the adoption of this behavior was key for some lineages in establishing ecological dominance.
  • James K. Wetterer

    James K. Wetterer

    James K. Wetterer Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458 Phone: (561) 799-8648; FAX: (561) 799-8602; e-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, 9/83 - 8/88 Ph.D., Zoology: Ecology and Evolution; Advisor: Gordon H. Orians. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, MI, 9/81 - 9/83 M.S., Zoology: Ecology; Advisors: Earl E. Werner and Donald J. Hall. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY, 9/76 - 5/79 A.B., Biology: Ecology and Systematics. UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS III, France, 1/78 - 5/78 Semester abroad: courses in theater, literature, and history of art. WORK EXPERIENCE FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Wilkes Honors College 8/04 - present: Professor 7/98 - 7/04: Associate Professor Teaching: Biodiversity, Principles of Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Human Ecology, Environmental Studies, Tropical Ecology, Field Biology, Life Science, and Scientific Writing 9/03 - 1/04 & 5/04 - 8/04: Fulbright Scholar; Ants of Trinidad and Tobago COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Department of Earth and Environmental Science 7/96 - 6/98: Assistant Professor Teaching: Community Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, and Tropical Ecology WHEATON COLLEGE, Department of Biology 8/94 - 6/96: Visiting Assistant Professor Teaching: General Ecology and Introductory Biology HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Museum of Comparative Zoology 8/91- 6/94: Post-doctoral Fellow; Behavior, ecology, and evolution of fungus-growing ants Advisors: Edward O. Wilson, Naomi Pierce, and Richard Lewontin 9/95 - 1/96: Teaching: Ethology PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 7/89 - 7/91: Research Associate; Ecology and evolution of leaf-cutting ants Advisor: Stephen Hubbell 1/91 - 5/91: Teaching: Tropical Ecology, Introduction to the Scientific Method VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Department of Psychology 9/88 - 7/89: Post-doctoral Fellow; Visual psychophysics of fish and horseshoe crabs Advisor: Maureen K.