Tissue and Cell, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 93, С. 102688 - 102688
Опубликована: Дек. 15, 2024
Язык: Английский
Tissue and Cell, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 93, С. 102688 - 102688
Опубликована: Дек. 15, 2024
Язык: Английский
Microorganisms, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(2), С. 283 - 283
Опубликована: Янв. 27, 2025
Entomopathogenic fungi, a group of insect pathogens, are characterized by high insecticidal efficacy and minimal environmental impact. They commonly used as biopesticides for pest control due to their significant practical value. We here classify entomopathogenic fungi according the process fungal infection in hosts, changes host behavior during infection, mechanisms spore transmission, review strategies employed insects resist including physical barrier defenses, immune system behavioral avoidance pathogens. This also discusses pathogenic on closely linked co-evolution between pathogens defenses. In conclusion, perspective future research is provided, emphasizing impact population density concentration environment disease outbreaks.
Язык: Английский
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3Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1922)
Опубликована: Март 20, 2025
Division of Labour (DoL) among group members reflects the pinnacle social complexity. The synergistic effects created by task specialization and sharing duties benefitting raise efficiency acquisition, use, management defence resources a fundamental step above potential individual agents. At same time, it may stabilize societies because involved interdependence collaborators. Here, I review conditions associated with emergence DoL, which include existence (i) sizeable groups enduring membership; (ii) improving performance; (iii) low conflict interest owing to correlated payoffs. This results in (iv) combination intra-individual consistency inter-individual variance carrying out different tasks, creates (v) some degree mutual members. DoL typically evolves ‘bottom-up’ without external regulatory forces, but latter gain importance at later stage evolution Owing feedback processes, cause effect are often difficult disentangle evolutionary trajectory towards structured well-developed their Nevertheless, entail one-way street complexity, retrogression getting increasingly more agents depend on each other progressing stages evolution. article is part theme issue ‘Division labour as key driver evolution’.
Язык: Английский
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3Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1922)
Опубликована: Март 20, 2025
Division of labour (DOL) plays a key role across all scales biological organization, but how its expression varies contexts is still poorly understood. Here, we measure DOL in crucial task, colony defence, social insect that affords precise experimental control over individual and traits, the clonal raider ant ( Ooceraea biroi ). We find defence behaviour emerges within colonies near-identical workers, likely reflecting variation response thresholds, it increases with size. Additionally, pupae show higher levels than those without brood. However, do not evidence for behavioural syndrome linking exploration activity, as previously reported other systems. By showing composition size affect group to potential threats, our findings highlight context shaping DOL. This article part theme issue ‘Division driver evolution’.
Язык: Английский
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1Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1922)
Опубликована: Март 20, 2025
Poets, philosophers and politicians have used bees, often projected an idealized human society into their view of how beehives are organized, from the ancient Greeks to present times. We first review division labour in honeybees was perceived by observers, before presenting our current understanding. focus specifically on defensive behaviour show that this model provides interesting case study for conceptual understanding as a whole. distinguish three phases response: detection intruder, recruitment individuals collective defence attack. Individual bees may selectively contribute one or more these steps. Guard monitor entering conspecifics attacking mammals, release alarm pheromone recruit stinging soldiers. However, we still far why only subsets become guards soldiers (or even if soldiering can be considered task per se ). discuss stimuli associated with each steps, they define number needed might combine individual developmental characteristics such take particular task. also highlight pending questions avenues future research. This article is part theme issue ‘Division key driver social evolution’.
Язык: Английский
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1Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1922)
Опубликована: Март 20, 2025
Division of labour within social groups and the interspecific relationships mutualisms have traditionally been treated as separate research areas. In this opinion, we align terminologies concepts between two fields, by comparing within-group division to outsourcing functions in mutualisms. share fundamental similarities. Both are built from specialization some individuals relationship on tasks or required for survival, growth reproduction. also generate variable fitness outcomes. A key difference is that generally direct gain, while benefits cooperative sociality often accrue a mix indirect fitness. Additionally, levels physical physiological many expand far beyond differentiation seen groups, with exception reproductive labour. The consideration between-species context allows expansion our understanding both fields beyond, consider general principles drivers labour, role differences more broadly across complexity. This article part theme issue ‘Division driver evolution’.
Язык: Английский
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1Journal of Insect Physiology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 104797 - 104797
Опубликована: Март 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
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1Insectes Sociaux, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 70(4), С. 393 - 403
Опубликована: Сен. 4, 2023
Язык: Английский
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9Ecological Complexity, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 58, С. 101083 - 101083
Опубликована: Апрель 26, 2024
Язык: Английский
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3Agriculture, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(6), С. 642 - 642
Опубликована: Март 18, 2025
Concerns about the environmental and health risks of synthetic insecticides are driving search for alternative pest control methods. Leaf-cutting ants (LCAs), one most significant pests in neotropics, cause substantial economic damage to agriculture present challenges due their complex biology ecology. While chemical remains primary strategy, its intensive use has negative impacts, promotes resistance, endangers non-target species, including plants, animals, humans. This review describes LCAs, examines traditional methods suggests strategies such as entomopathogenic fungi (EPFs) combined with sublethal doses insecticides, plant essential oils (EOs), RNAi techniques. Here, we emphasize need address LCA management sustainably by investigating ecology at both “colony” “individual” levels. Colony-level factors include morphology, life cycle, behavior, division labor, nest structure, while individual-level mechanisms involve sensory, biochemical, behavioral adaptations garden sterilization decontamination. also highlights potential insecticide EPFs induce changes worker mortality, it details mode action EOs promising strategies. The integration biological approaches could offer sustainable alternatives insecticides.
Язык: Английский
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0Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 41 - 53
Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2025
The symbiotic relationship between termites and their gut microbes is one of nature's most fascinating mutualistic interactions. Termites, renowned for ability to decompose lignocellulosic materials such as wood, rely heavily on microbiota, which includes bacteria, archaea, protozoa, each playing specific roles in breaking down cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin. This complex partnership not only enables thrive low-nutrient environments but also supports nitrogen metabolism provides essential nutrients survival. termite highly compartmentalized, creating various microenvironments that support diverse microbial communities facilitate metabolic processes, including fermentation anoxic conditions. Shaped by evolutionary pressures, this has resulted specialized adaptations optimize lignocellulose degradation cycling. review explores the mechanisms termite-microbe symbiosis, functional across different taxa, structural compartmentalization gut, dynamics driving relationship. In addition, highlights ecological biotechnological significance offering valuable insights into efficient nutrient recycling could inspire future applications sustainable bioenergy waste management.
Язык: Английский
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