Life history, behavioural and morphometric data for queens and workers from an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris)
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Collins, D.H.; Prince, D.C.; Donelan, J.L.; Chapman, T.; Bourke, A.F.G. (2021). Life history, behavioural and morphometric data for queens and workers from an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a
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Data on worker behaviour, experimental treatment and sampling, queen longevity, queen and colony fecundity and queen morphometrics collected for an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris).
Publication date: 2021-12-06
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Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2019-03-01 to 2021-03-31
Provenance & quality
The files described in this document contain data collected in Objective 1, Experiment 1 of NERC project NE/R000875/1. We experimentally increased reproduction in Bombus terrestris queens to test whether this would cause them to exhibit a cost to their longevity. We acquired young colonies of B. terrestris and allocated them to two treatments: Removal (R) queens: eggs were removed and counted, therefore inducing queens to increase their fertility and hence experience greater costs of reproduction; and Control (C) queens: eggs were removed, counted, and replaced to control for the disturbance caused by egg removal. We then assessed the queen's longevity in each colony. As egg removal increases worker egg-laying and aggression towards the queen in B. terrestris, we recorded and removed workers displaying these behaviours to ensure they did not affect colony fertility (defined as the number of eggs counted in each colony every two days) and queen longevity. As locomotory activity is affected by ageing in insects, we also monitored queen movement and response to disturbance throughout the experiment. Finally, we collected and sequenced mRNA at timepoints during the experiment that represented 10% (time-point 1, TP1) and 60% (time-point 2, TP2) mortality phases in each treatment.
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Collins, D.H.; Prince, D.C.; Donelan, J.L.; Chapman, T.; Bourke, A.F.G. (2021). Life history, behavioural and morphometric data for queens and workers from an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a
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Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 3 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26603407
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 3 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603407.V1
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 2 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603404.V1
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 2 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603404
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 1 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603401.V1
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 1 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603401
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2022). Eusocial insect queens show costs of reproduction and transcriptomic signatures of reduced longevity. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.20.485028
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 4 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603410
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 4 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603410.V1
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 5 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603413
Collins, D. H., Prince, D. C., Donelan, J. L., Chapman, T., & Bourke, A. F. G. (2024). Additional file 5 of Costs of reproduction are present but latent in eusocial bumblebee queens [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26603413.V1
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Authors
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8619-8158
Donelan, J.L.
University of East Anglia
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