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Organisms face the challenge of optimally allocating limited resources among investments that promote survival, growth or reproduction. In species whose members build complex nests, this resource allocation problem also applies to the building and use of the nest structure, a critical part of an individual's extended phenotype. Honeybee colonies face an acute problem of properly allocating one nest...
Kin selection theory predicts that in colonies of social Hymenoptera with multiply mated queens, workers should mutually inhibit (“police”) worker reproduction, but that in colonies with singly mated queens, workers should favor rearing workers’ sons instead of queens’ sons. In line with these predictions, Mattila et al. (Curr Biol 22:2027–2031, 2012) documented increased ovary development among workers...
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