Organization of Insect Societies : : From Genome to Sociocomplexity / / ed. by Jennifer Fewell, Jürgen Gadau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Amdam, Gro V.,; Barron, Andrew B.,; Bloch, Guy,; Boomsma, Jacobus J.,; Breed, Michael D.,; Brent, Colin S.,; Buchwald, Robert,; Cole, Blaine J.,; Deneubourg, Jean-Louis,; Dornhaus, Anna,; Erber, Joachim,; Fefferman, Nina H.,; Fewell, Jennifer,; Foitzik, Susanne,; Franks, Nigel R.,; Gadau, Jürgen,; Gronenberg, Wulfila,; Haber, Matthew H.,; Hamilton, Andrew,; Heinze, Jürgen,; Hunt, Greg J.,; Jeanne, Robert L.,; Jeanson, Raphaël,; Kleineidam, Christoph J.,; Korb, Judith,; Kronauer, Daniel J. C.,; Laubichler, Manfred,; Liebig, Jürgen,; Linksvayer, Timothy A.,; Marshall, James A. R.,; Moncharmont, Francois-Xavier Dechaume,; Nieh, James C.,; Page Jr, Robert E.,; Pedersen, Jes S.,; Peeters, Christian,; Pratt, Stephen C.,; Riveros, Andre J.,; Robinson, Gene E.,; Roces, Flavio,; Rueppell, Olav,; Rössler, Wolfgang,; Scheiner, Ricarda,; Schmidt, Shana K.,; Seeley, Thomas D.,; Smith, Nathan R.,; Taylor, Thomas,; Tierney, Simon M.,; Traniello, James F. A.,; Wcislo, William T.,; Wilson, Edward O.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fewell, Jennifer,; Gadau, Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

In this landmark volume, an international group of scientists has synthesized their collective expertise and insight into a newly unified vision of insect societies and what they can reveal about how sociality has arisen as an evolutionary strategy. Jürgen Gadau and Jennifer Fewell have assembled leading researchers from the fields of molecular biology, evolutionary genetics, neurophysiology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary theory to reexamine the question of sociality in insects. Recent advances in social complexity theory and the sequencing of the honeybee genome ensure that this book will be valued by anyone working on sociality in insects. At the same time, the theoretical ideas presented will be of broad-ranging significance to those interested in social evolution and complex systems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART ONE Transitions in Social Evolution -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems -- CHAPTER TWO The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and Back -- CHAPTER THREE Aging of Social Insects -- CHAPTER FOUR The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of Ant Populations -- CHAPTER FIVE Control of Termite Caste Differentiation -- CHAPTER SIX Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An Alternative to Eusociality -- PART TWO Communication -- Introduction -- CHAPTER EIGHT Cue Diversity and Social Recognition -- CHAPTER NINE Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera -- CHAPTER TEN Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste Determination? -- CHAPTER TWELVE Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanisms in Bees and Wasps -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and Communication -- PART THREE Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior -- Introduction -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging Labor in the Honey Bee -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks: A Paradigm for Insect Sociality -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Social Brains and Behavior—Past and Present -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal Organization of Insect Societies -- PART FOUR Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization -- Introduction -- CHAPTER NINETEEN The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology -- CHAPTER TWENTY Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and Social Transitions in Arthropods -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision Making -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in the Middle -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and Sociality -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The Advantage of “Natural Experiments” Sensu Boveri -- Acknowledgments -- Index