par Aron, Serge 
;Darras, Hugo ;Eyer, Pierre-André ;Leniaud, Laurianne ;Pearcy, Morgan
Référence Institut Scientifique. Bulletin. Section Sciences de la Terre, 35, page (103-109)
Publication Publié, 2013
;Darras, Hugo ;Eyer, Pierre-André ;Leniaud, Laurianne ;Pearcy, Morgan Référence Institut Scientifique. Bulletin. Section Sciences de la Terre, 35, page (103-109)
Publication Publié, 2013
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis show a remarkable diversity in their reproductive strategies and social structure. Colonies can be headed by one or several reproductive queens, queens are singly or multiply mated, and workers and/or queens may have the ability to reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis. With the help of highly polymorphic microsatellites markers, we investigated the social structure and mating system in the ant C. viatica, a species widespread in arid areas of Morocco. Our results show that mating proceeds at random in the study population, and that each colony is headed by a single, multiple mated queen. Workers from queenless colonies lay both arrhenotokous-haploid eggs and thelytokous-diploid eggs. Conversely, no evidence for parthenogenetic reproduction by queens was found. Our results are compared to those previously reported for other Cataglyphis ants from Morocco. |
