polistineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

polistine (plural polistines)

1. Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
   • 2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution‎, archived from the original on 27 February 2025:

     It has previously been argued that preimaginal differentiation of workers and queens is an underlying, unifying feature of polistines and vespines (Gadagkar 1991; Hunt 1991; O’Donnell 1998; Hunt 2006, 2007; Hunt et al. 2007). The results (fig. 2; supplementary figs. S1 and S2, Supplementary Material online) support this proposed framework of eusocial evolution, whereby two distinct developmental trajectories exist for both polistine and vespine female offspring during larval development (Hunt 2007): […]