Foundress associations in polistine wasps: dominance hierarchies and the evolution of social behavior.
Interactions among female paper wasps of newly founded colonies suggest that dominance relations assign social (reproductive) roles to siblings in a way advantageous to both dominants and subordinates. In various social animals dominance relations may have been an important prerequisite for the evolution of a division of labor between reproductive and nonreproductive (or less reproductive) adults.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D007313:Insecta