Organization of Insect Societies : : From Genome to Sociocomplexity / / ed. by Jennifer Fewell, Jürgen Gadau.
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 le...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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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