Toward greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of caste fate conflict in insect societies

In the field of social evolution, inclusive fitness theory has been successful in making a wide range of qualitative predictions on expected patterns of cooperation and conflict. Nevertheless, outside of sex ratio theory, inclusive fitness models that make accurate quantitative predictions remain relatively rare. Past models dealing with caste fate conflict in insect societies, for example, successfully predicted that if female larvae can control their own caste fate, an excess should opt to selfishly develop as queens. Available models, however, were unable to accurately predict levels of queen production observed in Melipona bees – a genus of stingless bees where caste is self-determined – as empirically observed levels of queen production are ca. two times lower than the theoretically predicted ones. Here, we show that this discrepancy can be resolved by explicitly deriving the colony-level cost of queen overproduction from a dynamic model of colony growth, requiring incorporation of..., , , This zip directory contains all the necessary files to reproduce the findings reported in our associated paper, titled \"Toward greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of caste fate conflict in insect societies\".

Citation:

Ferreira, H. M., Alves, D. A., Cool, L., Oi, C. A., Oliveira, R. C., & Wenseleers, T. (2024). Toward greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of caste fate conflict in insect societies. Evolution Letters, qrad068.

The contents include:

### I. Raw data files used for the statistics:

1. 1_Queen_male_production_raw_data.csv : Species names, Population (refers to each sampled location), Locality, Ntcombs (number of combs accessed), Ntcolony (total number of colonies accessed), Ncolony (Number of colonies accessed per row), Ncomb(number of combs accessed per row), Idcolony (individual colony ID (xx_pooled refers to the fact that is lacking individual data per colony/comb), Tmonths (total number of months in which the colonies/combs were ...