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Boris H. Kramer
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Supplementary Information from Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects—a significant but inconsistent link?
2021
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Life history evolution in social insects: a female perspective
2016
Social insects are known for their unusual life histories with fecund, long-lived queens and sterile, short-lived workers. We review ultimate factors underlying variation in life history strategies in female social insects, whose social life reshapes common trade-offs, such as the one between fecundity and longevity. Interspecific life history variation is associated with colony size, mediated by changes in division of labour and extrinsic mortality. In addition to the ratio of juvenile to adult mortality, social factors such as queen number influence life history trajectories. We discuss two hypotheses explaining why queen fecundity and lifespan is higher in single-queen societies and sugg…
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: A significant but inconsistent link?
2021
The life-prolonging effects of antioxidants have long entered popular culture, but the scientific community still debates whether free radicals and the resulting oxidative stress negatively affect longevity. Social insects are intriguing models for analysing the relationship between oxidative stress and senescence because life histories differ vastly between long-lived reproductives and the genetically similar but short-lived workers. Here, we present the results of an experiment on the accumulation of oxidative damage to proteins, and a comparative analysis of the expression of 20 selected genes commonly involved in managing oxidative damage, across four species of social insects: a termit…
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2021
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Table S3 from Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects—a significant but inconsistent link?
2021
Details of genes identified in our four study species following Corona and colleagues (Corona et al. 2006).
Table S5 A, B, C from Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects—a significant but inconsistent link?
2021
Correlation and p-values between the 20 antioxidant genes; PC axis that separated castes in C. secundus, A. mellifera capensis and E. viridissima; PC axis that separated young and old individuals of P. punctata and E. viridissima.
Table S4 A, B from Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects—a significant but inconsistent link?
2021
Genes unambiguously identified in our study species; Normalised read counts identified in our study species
Table S2 from Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects—a significant but inconsistent link?
2021
Genes involved in the enzymatic antioxidant system following Corona and Robinson (2006) identified in Apis, Anopheles and/or Drosophila.