Dictionary definition: dulosis

Dictionary definition: dulosis
A Dictionary of Zoology;      255 words ...dulosis (adj. dulotic) The slave-making behaviour of certain parasitic ant species, in which the workers raid nests of other species and remove pupae. These are then reared as slaves in the nest of the dulotic ant species, and pass on foraged food to their captors.

Article: The all-female ant species that doesn't need sex to ...
Asian News International;  April 15, 2009 ;     665 words ... ... The researchers have revealed that the ant species - Mycocepurus smithii - rely upon cloning ... Upon "fingerprinting" DNA of the ant species, the researchers found them all to ... had yet to find out why the particular ant species had become fully asexual. Her team ...

Article: New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  October 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... collected the only known specimen of the new ant species in 2003 from leaf-litter at the Empresa ... Rabeling. He speculates that the new ant species evolved adaptations over time to its ... physical characteristics. "The new ant species is hidden in environmentally stable ...

Article: New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely to ...
The Hindustan Times;  September 16, 2008 ;     646 words ... ... collected the only known specimen of the new ant species in 2003 from leaf-litter at the Empresa ... said. Rabeling speculates that the new ant species evolved adaptations over time to its ... physical characteristics. "The new ant species is hidden in environmentally stable ...

Article: NEW ANT SPECIES DISCOVERED IN AMAZON LIKELY ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... collected the only known specimen of the new ant species in 2003 from leaf-litter at the Empresa ... Rabeling. He speculates that the new ant species evolved adaptations over time to its ... physical characteristics. "The new ant species is hidden in environmentally stable ...

Article: Farmer ant species may have lost all its ...
Science News;  July 3, 2004 ;     566 words ... ... Minuscule gardeners that grow fungus for food may be the first ant species that scientists have discovered to have no power of sexual ... turning into males. Scientists already knew of five unusual ant species that produce females from unfertilized eggs, says Himler ...

Article: From the Same Ant Species, Different Behavior
The Washington Post;  November 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... insights into how evolution operates." Only about two dozen ant species -- about 4 percent of those known worldwide -- display slavemaking ... Europe into endangered species. In North America, slavemaking ant species range from northern Alabama to Quebec, but no further west ...