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![Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history Search WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia Gamergate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Wikimedia Shop Interaction This article is about a type of ant. For the 2014 video game culture controversy, see Gamergate controversy. A gamergate is a reproductively viable female worker ant that is able to reproduce with mature males when the colony is lacking a queen. Most commonly occurring within the primitive species of the poneromorph subfamilies, gamergate females differ from their fellow workers by a combination of elevated fecundity and aggression-related mutilation of competitors' secondary sexual characteristics. Subsequent to their first mating event, however, aggression is no longer needed as females secrete chemical signals that lead the workers to accept their role as reproducers for the colony Gamergates exist in colonies with winged and ergatoid queens as well as singly in monogynous colonies and alongside other reproductively viable gamergates in polygynous colonies. Most gamergate species are solitary generalist foragers living in arid environments. Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page Lateral view of a female Pachycondyla berthoudi worker, the ant for which the term "gamergate" was originally coined Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 2 Overview Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Wikidata item Cite this page 2.1 Caste structure 2.2 Social structure variation and ecology 3 Classification dispute 4 Genera with gamergates 5 See also 6 References Print/export Etymology fedit Create a book Download as PDF Printable version The term gamergate derives from the Greek words γαμ0 gámos and εργατη ergátēs and means married worker. "It was coined in 1983 by geneticist William L. Brownl1l and was first used in scientific literature by entomologists Christian Peeters and Robin Crewe in a 1984 paper published in Naturwissenschaften.2 The definition ynically found in entomological dictionaries is mated eaa-laving worker "3]4] and is drawn from the glossary of Bert Hälldobler andF O Wilson's 1ggo Languages](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/848/616/892.png "Am I doing this right?")
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