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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 2139-2151Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOEC.0000048779.47821.38
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cuticular hydrocarbons; Corsica; Elba; Giglio; Capraia; Tuscany; biogeography; gas chromatography; mass spectrometry; Polistes dominulus
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In social insects, the types and proportions of epicuticular lipids may exhibit significant diversity as a result of factors such as age, sex, caste, rank, nest, and relatedness. It is known that these variations can be used by social insects to acquire information regarding conspecific individuals. Recent findings have shown that different populations of Polistes dominulus (Christ.) have distinctly different chemical cuticular profiles, and that wasps are able to recognize individuals of their own population. In this study, we showed that cuticular hydrocarbon patterns of Polistes dominulus are consistent with similarities among northern Tyrrhenian islands, as reported in previous biogeographic studies. Indeed, our findings indicate that cuticular hydrocarbon mixtures of P. dominulus from Capraia and Corsica are grouped together by cluster analysis, while those from Elba and Giglio cluster with cuticular profiles of the mainland wasps (Venturina).
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